About the Authors

Qian Fan

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Gerontology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital-Affiliate of Beijing Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Zheng M. Huang

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthieu Boucher

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiying Shang

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lin Zuo

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Henriette Brinks

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wayne Bond Lau

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianke Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

J. Kurt Chuprun

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erhe Gao

erhe.gao@temple.edu

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QF ZMH EG. Performed the experiments: QF ZMH MB XS LZ HB EG. Analyzed the data: QF ZMH EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ JKC MB HB. Wrote the paper: QF WBL EG.