About the Authors

Ming Duan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Duan, Honghong Yao

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Honghong Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Duan, Honghong Yao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Guoku Hu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

XianMing Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Amie K. Lund

Affiliation Cardiopulmonary and Environmental Toxicology Department, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Shilpa Buch

sbuch@unmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

Shilpa Buch is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: SB HHY. Performed the experiments: HHY MD GH. Analyzed the data: MD GH AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC. Wrote the paper: SB HHY.