About the Authors

Agnes Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Agnes Kim, Pu Feng

Current address: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pu Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Agnes Kim, Pu Feng

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tadahiro Ohkuri

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Daniel Sauers

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zachary J. Cohn

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jinghua Chai

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Theodore Nelson

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alexander A. Bachmanov

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Liquan Huang

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hong Wang

hwang@monell.org

Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TO TN AAB LH HW. Performed the experiments: AG PF TO ZJC JH HW. Analyzed the data: AK PF TO ZJC TN AAB LH HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK PF TO ZJC JC HW. Wrote the paper: PF TO DS AAB LH HW.