About the Authors

Shadi Salloum

Contributed equally to this work with: Shadi Salloum, Hongliang Wang

Current address: Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Hongliang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shadi Salloum, Hongliang Wang

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Charles Ferguson

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Robert G. Parton

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Andrew W. Tai

andrewwt@med.umich.edu

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS HW RGP AWT. Performed the experiments: SS HW CF RGP AWT. Analyzed the data: SS HW RGP AWT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RGP AWT. Wrote the paper: SS HW AWT.