About the Authors

Xinyi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinyi Yang, Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Wei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinyi Yang, Wei Wang

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Biology Center, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Jiang-Jiang Qin

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Ming-Hai Wang

Affiliations Cancer Biology Center, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Horrick Sharma

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

John K. Buolamwini

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Hui Wang

Affiliation Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Ruiwen Zhang

ruiwen.zhang@ttuhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Biology Center, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW XY RZ. Performed the experiments: WW XY. Analyzed the data: WW JJQ MHW HW RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS JKB. Wrote the paper: WW XY JJQ MHW HW JKB RZ.