About the Authors

Hongbo Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States of America

Ryan Antony

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States of America

Rekha Srinivasan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States of America

Penglong Wu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States of America

Xuejun Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States of America

Yifan Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yifan.li@usd.edu

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.