About the Authors

Xiaojun Wang

Affiliations Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Institute of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Mark C. Zielinski

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ryosuke Misawa

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Patrick Wen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tian-Yuan Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Cheng-Zhang Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Piotr Witkowski

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Manami Hara

mhara@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH. Performed the experiments: XW MCZ RM P. Wen TW CW MH. Analyzed the data: XW MCZ MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW RM P. Witkowski. Wrote the paper: MH XW MCZ P. Witkowski.