About the Authors

Seok Jong Hong

seok-hong@northwestern.edu (SJH); rgaliano@nmh.org (RG)

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Laboratory for Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine,Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sheng-Xian Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-Xian Jia, Ping Xie

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Laboratory for Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine,Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ping Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-Xian Jia, Ping Xie

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Laboratory for Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine,Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wei Xu

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Laboratory for Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine,Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kai P. Leung

Affiliation Microbiology Branch, US Army Dental and Trauma Research Detachment, Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas A. Mustoe

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Laboratory for Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine,Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Robert D. Galiano

seok-hong@northwestern.edu (SJH); rgaliano@nmh.org (RG)

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Laboratory for Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine,Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJH KPL TAM RDG. Performed the experiments: SJH SXJ PX WX. Analyzed the data: SJH SXJ PX WX KPL TAM RDG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJH WX. Wrote the paper: SJH TAM RDG.