About the Authors

Karen L. Oslund

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen L. Oslund, Xu Zhou

Affiliations Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Xu Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen L. Oslund, Xu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Boram Lee

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Lingxiang Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Trang Duong

Affiliations Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Robert Shih

Affiliation Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Nicole Baumgarth

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Li-Yin Hung

Affiliation Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Reen Wu

Affiliation Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Yin Chen

ychen@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLO YC NB RW. Performed the experiments: XZ BL LZ TD RS LH. Analyzed the data: KLO YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLO YC RW NB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KLO YC.