About the Authors

Wei Luo

Current address: Department of Orthopedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

John Sandy

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Katie Trella

Contributed equally to this work with: Katie Trella, Daniel Gorski, Shuguang Gao

Current address: Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Daniel Gorski

Contributed equally to this work with: Katie Trella, Daniel Gorski, Shuguang Gao

Current address: Institut für Pharmakologie und Klinische Pharmakologie, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Shuguang Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Katie Trella, Daniel Gorski, Shuguang Gao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Sabrina Brounts

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jorge Galante

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Anna Plaas

aplaas@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AP JG SB JS. Formal analysis: KT AP JS. Funding acquisition: AP JG. Investigation: WL KT DG SG JL. Methodology: WL AP SB. Project administration: AP. Resources: JS. Supervision: AP. Visualization: AP KT. Writing – original draft: AP JS SB. Writing – review & editing: AP JS SB KT JG.