About the Authors

Na Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Na Gao, Jialie Luo

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jialie Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Na Gao, Jialie Luo

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Karen Uray

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aihua Qian

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shijin Yin

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Guodu Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xiyu Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Yun Xia

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jackie D. Wood

Hongzhen.Hu@uth.tmc.edu (HH); wood.13@osu.edu (JDW)

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hongzhen Hu

Hongzhen.Hu@uth.tmc.edu (HH); wood.13@osu.edu (JDW)

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH JDW. Performed the experiments: NG JL KU AQ SY GW XW YX. Analyzed the data: NG JL AQ. Wrote the paper: HH JDW JL.