About the Authors

Yan Ma

mygzhtcm@163.com (YM); yhw_albert@163.com (YHW)

‡ These authors share first authorship of this work.

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Yuhua Wang

mygzhtcm@163.com (YM); yhw_albert@163.com (YHW)

‡ These authors share first authorship of this work.

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Zhenghong Xu

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Yongjun Wang

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China

John K. Fallon

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Feng Liu

† Deceased.

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FL. Data curation: YM ZHX. Formal analysis: YM YHW. Funding acquisition: FL YM. Investigation: YJW. Methodology: YHW YJW. Resources: FL YM. Supervision: FL. Validation: YM YHW. Writing – original draft: YM YHW. Writing – review & editing: JKF.