About the Authors

Xiaobing Tan

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Guoxiang Xie

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiuhua Sun

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Qiong Li

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Wei Zhong

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter Qiao

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xinguo Sun

Affiliation Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Wei Jia

z_zhou@uncg.edu (ZZ); w_jia@uncg.edu (WJ)

Affiliations Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhanxiang Zhou

z_zhou@uncg.edu (ZZ); w_jia@uncg.edu (WJ)

Affiliations Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XT GX WJ ZZ. Performed the experiments: XT GX XHS QL WZ XGS. Analyzed the data: XT GX PQ. Wrote the paper: XT GX PQ WJ ZZ.