About the Authors

Yue Yang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Min Dai

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Teresa M. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Irina Omelchenko

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

John E. Klimek

Affiliation Proteomic Shared Resources, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Phillip A. Wilmarth

Affiliation Proteomic Shared Resources, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Larry L. David

Affiliation Proteomic Shared Resources, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Alfred L. Nuttall

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Peter G. Gillespie

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Xiaorui Shi

shix@ohsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, The Institute of Microcirculation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY XS. Performed the experiments: XS YY MD TW IO LD. Analyzed the data: XS YY TW JK PW LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XS. Wrote the paper: XS YY TW AN PG.