About the Authors

Yanyang Li

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alexander Urban

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Devin Midura

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hans-Georg Simon

quntianw@gmail.com (QTW); hgsimon@northwestern.edu (HGS)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Q. Tian Wang

quntianw@gmail.com (QTW); hgsimon@northwestern.edu (HGS)

Current address: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QTW H-GS YL. Data curation: YL AU DM. Formal analysis: YL AU DM. Funding acquisition: QTW H-GS. Investigation: YL AU DM. Methodology: QTW H-GS YL AU DM. Project administration: QTW H-GS. Resources: QTW H-GS. Supervision: QTW H-GS. Validation: YL AU DM. Visualization: YL AU. Writing – original draft: QTW YL. Writing – review & editing: QTW H-GS YL AU.