About the Authors

Xiaoxi B. Lin

Affiliation University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Canada

Arazm Farhangfar

Affiliations University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Canada, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Rosica Valcheva

Affiliation The Center of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Michael B. Sawyer

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Levinus Dieleman

Affiliation The Center of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Andreas Schieber

Affiliations University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Canada, University of Bonn, Department of Nutritional and Food Sciences, Bonn, Germany

Michael G. Gänzle

mgaenzle@ualberta.ca

Affiliation University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Canada

Vickie Baracos

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XBL MBS LD AS MGG VB. Performed the experiments: XBL AF RV. Analyzed the data: XBL AF RV MGG VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RV AS. Wrote the manuscript: XBL MGG VB.