About the Authors

Xiangru Wang

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ravi Maruvada

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew J. Morris

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Gill Heart Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jun O. Liu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael J. Wolfgang

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Dong Jae Baek

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America

Robert Bittman

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America

Kwang Sik Kim

kwangkim@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XW KSK. Formal analysis: XW RM KSK. Funding acquisition: XW MJW RB KSK. Investigation: XW RM AJM JOL MJW DJB RB. Methodology: XW RM AJM MJW. Project administration: KSK. Resources: AJM JOL MJW DJB RB. Supervision: KSK. Writing – original draft: XW KSK. Writing – review & editing: XW KSK.