About the Authors

Yujiro Kida

Current address: Division of Nephrology and Center for Lung Biology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zanxian Xia

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sujun Zheng

Affiliation Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, The People's Republic of China

Nicholas M. Mordwinkin

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stan G. Louie

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Song Guo Zheng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Min Feng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hongbo Shi

Affiliation Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, The People's Republic of China

Zhongping Duan

yhan@surgery.usc.edu (Y-PH); duan2517@163.com.cn (ZD)

Affiliation Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, The People's Republic of China

Yuan-Ping Han

yhan@surgery.usc.edu (Y-PH); duan2517@163.com.cn (ZD)

Affiliations Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, The People's Republic of China, Beijing Hepo Medical Research Institute, Beijing, The People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK Y-PH SL ZD SGZ. Performed the experiments: YK ZX MF NM HS SZ. Analyzed the data: YK Y-PH. Wrote the paper: YK Y-PH.