About the Authors

Wei Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Huang, Bo Dai, Zhili Wen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Bo Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Huang, Bo Dai, Zhili Wen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Zhili Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Huang, Bo Dai, Zhili Wen

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Infectious Disease Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Ronald W. Millard

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Xi-Yong Yu

Affiliation Medical Research Center of Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Kristin Luther

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Meifeng Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ting C. Zhao

Affiliation Cardiovascular Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Boston University Medical School, Roger William Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Huang-Tian Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhihua Qi

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kathleen LaSance

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Muhammad Ashraf

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yigang Wang

yi-gang.wang@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW MA. Performed the experiments: WH BD ZW ZQ KL. Analyzed the data: WH YW ZQ KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MX MA XY HY TZ. Wrote the paper: WH YW RM KL XY HY. Obtained permission for use of designed software: ZQ KL.