About the Authors

Ping Zhong

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Zhen Yan

zhenyan@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ ZY. Performed the experiments: PZ. Analyzed the data: PZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PZ ZY. Wrote the manuscript: ZY.