About the Authors

Andrea Hodgson

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Hodgson, Eric M. Wier

Affiliations W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Eric M. Wier

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Hodgson, Eric M. Wier

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kai Fu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xin Sun

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hongbing Yu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, BC’s Children’s Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wenxin Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ho Pan Sham

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, BC’s Children’s Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kaitlin Johnson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Scott Bailey

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Bruce A. Vallance

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, BC’s Children’s Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fengyi Wan

fwan1@jhu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH EMW FW. Performed the experiments: AH EMW KF XS HY WZ. Analyzed the data: AH EMW FW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPS KJ SB BAV. Wrote the paper: AH EMW FW.