About the Authors

Mingming Gao

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yongjie Ma

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Dexi Liu

dliu@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG DL. Performed the experiments: MG YM. Analyzed the data: MG YM DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG YM DL. Wrote the paper: MG DL.