About the Authors

Sang Woo Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Woo Kim, Elane Fishilevich, Gustavo Arango-Argoty

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Elane Fishilevich

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Woo Kim, Elane Fishilevich, Gustavo Arango-Argoty

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Gustavo Arango-Argoty

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Woo Kim, Elane Fishilevich, Gustavo Arango-Argoty

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Yuefeng Lin

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Guodong Liu

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Zhihua Li

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

A. Paula Monaghan

bino@pitt.edu (BJ); mnichols@pitt.edu (MN); monaghan@pitt.edu (APM)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, 3501 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Mark Nichols

bino@pitt.edu (BJ); mnichols@pitt.edu (MN); monaghan@pitt.edu (APM)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Bino John

bino@pitt.edu (BJ); mnichols@pitt.edu (MN); monaghan@pitt.edu (APM)

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SWK EF ZL APM MN BJ. Performed the experiments: SWK EF GA YL GL ZL. Analyzed the data: SWK EF GA YL GL ZL. Wrote the paper: SWK EF ZL APM MN BJ.