About the Authors

Yanhan Wang

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Wenhong Zhu

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Muya Shu

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yong Jiang

Affiliation Surface Bioadvances Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Richard L. Gallo

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yu-Tsueng Liu

chunming@ucsd.ed (CMH); ytliu@ucsd.edu (YTL)

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Chun-Ming Huang

chunming@ucsd.ed (CMH); ytliu@ucsd.edu (YTL)

Affiliations Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. YJ at Surface Bioadvances Inc. provided assistant in experiments of using UV lamps. No consultancy, patents and products in development in this company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YTL CMH. Performed the experiments: YW WZ MS YJ CMH. Analyzed the data: YW WZ CMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLG. Wrote the paper: CMH.