About the Authors

Siwang Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Siwang Yu, Tin Oo Khor

Current address: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Tin Oo Khor

Contributed equally to this work with: Siwang Yu, Tin Oo Khor

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ka-Lung Cheung

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Wenge Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Tien-Yuan Wu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ying Huang

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Barbara A. Foster

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yuet Wai Kan

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute and Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ah-Ng Kong

KongT@rci.rutgers.edu These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY TOK ANTK. Performed the experiments: SY TOK KLC WL TYW YH. Analyzed the data: SY TOK WL ANTK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL BAF YWK. Wrote the paper: SY TOK ANTK.