About the Authors

Yi Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Gong, Yanli Li

Affiliation Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yanli Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Gong, Yanli Li

Affiliations Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Molecular and Experimental Therapeutics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Hamid M. Abdolmaleky

Affiliation Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Linglin Li

Affiliation Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jin-Rong Zhou

jrzhou@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliations Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Molecular and Experimental Therapeutics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRZ. Performed the experiments: YG YL LL HMA. Analyzed the data: YG YL LL JRZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRZ. Wrote the paper: YG YL HMA JRZ.