About the Authors

Yan Zhao

Affiliation Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lei Bao

Affiliation Departments of Dermatology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lawrence S. Chan

Affiliations Departments of Dermatology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Departments of Immunology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Medicine Service, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Luisa A. DiPietro

Affiliation Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lin Chen

chenlin@uic.edu

Affiliation Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC LB LSC LAD. Performed the experiments: YZ LB LC. Analyzed the data: YZ LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LSC LAD. Wrote the paper: LAD LC.