About the Authors

Zheng Gong

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Central South University Xiangya Medical School, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yesmin Luna

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ping Yu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central South University Xiangya Medical School, Changsha, Hunan, China

Huizhou Fan

fanhu@rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF. Performed the experiments: ZG YL. Analyzed the data: ZG PY HF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HF.