About the Authors

Ying Gu

Affiliations Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Xin Chen

Affiliations Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Chaowei Shang

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Karnika Singh

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Mansoureh Barzegar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Elahe Mahdavian

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Physics, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Brian A. Salvatore

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Physics, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Shanxiang Jiang

shuan1@lsuhsc.edu (SH); nauvy@sina.com (SJ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China

Shile Huang

shuan1@lsuhsc.edu (SH); nauvy@sina.com (SJ)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH SJ. Performed the experiments: YG XC CS KS MB. Analyzed the data: YG SJ SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM BAS SJ SH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YG SJ SH.