About the Authors

Lien Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Yan Zhang

Current address: School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Zhiwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Nian Gong

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Tae Dong Kweon

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Benjamin Vo

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Chaoran Wang

Affiliation Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Xiuli Zhang

Affiliation Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Jae Yoon Chung

Current address: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Wonkwang University Sanbon Hospital, Gunpo, Gyeonggi, Korea

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Amal Alachkar

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Xinmiao Liang

Affiliation Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning, China

David Z. Luo

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Olivier Civelli

ocivelli@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LW OC. Formal analysis: LW AA YZ OC. Funding acquisition: XL OC. Methodology: LW ZW NG TDK BV CW DZL. Project administration: XL OC. Resources: YZ JYC CW ZW. Supervision: XL DZL OC. Validation: LW YZ AA. Visualization: LW AA. Writing – original draft: LW XZ XL YZ OC. Writing – review & editing: LW DZL OC.