About the Authors

Chunguang Yan

Affiliations Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Ximo Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tianjin Union Medical Center, Nankai University Affiliated Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jay Cao

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Min Wu

hgao@zeus.bwh.harvard.edu (HG); min.wu@med.und.edu (MW)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Hongwei Gao

hgao@zeus.bwh.harvard.edu (HG); min.wu@med.und.edu (MW)

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY XW MW HG. Performed the experiments: CY JC MW. Analyzed the data: CY XW MW HG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC MW. Wrote the paper: CY XW MW HG.