About the Authors

Yuefang Zhou

yz10@st-andrews.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Alex Collinson

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Anita Laidlaw

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Gerry Humphris

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC AL. Performed the experiments: AC AL. Analyzed the data: YZ GH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ AL GH. Wrote the manuscript: YZ GH. Wrote the first draft of the article: YZ. Edited the draft and approved the final version to be published: YZ AC AL GH.