About the Authors

Wei Xu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Fong-Fu Hsu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Eda Baykal

Affiliation Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Juyang Huang

Affiliation Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Kai Zhang

kai.zhang@ttu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX FFH JH KZ. Performed the experiments: WX FFH EB. Analyzed the data: WX FFH JH KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WX JH FFH KZ. Wrote the paper: WX KZ FFH.