Exposure to mold proteases stimulates mucin production in airway epithelial cells through Ras/Raf1/ERK signal pathway

• Xianxian Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xianxian Wu, Boram Lee

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Boram Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xianxian Wu, Boram Lee

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Lingxiang Zhu,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Zhi Ding ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dingzhi@nju.edu.cn (ZD); ychen@pharmacy.arizona.edu (YC)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Changzhou High-Tech Research Institute of Nanjing University, Changzhou, China

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• Yin Chen

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dingzhi@nju.edu.cn (ZD); ychen@pharmacy.arizona.edu (YC)

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-6873

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