About the Authors

Yanyan Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Pharmaceutical Science, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Xiqiao Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Derrick Zhao

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Xuan Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Emily C. Gurley

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Runping Liu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Xiaojiaoyang Li

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Phillip B. Hylemon

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Weidong Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

anzhongdong@126.com (WC); huiping.zhou@vcuhealth.org (HZ)

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Science, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

Huiping Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

anzhongdong@126.com (WC); huiping.zhou@vcuhealth.org (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing financial interest.