About the Authors

Ruizheng Shi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Zehong Cao

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Hong Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Jochen Graw

Roles Resources

Affiliation Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Developmental Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany

Guogang Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Victor J. Thannickal

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Guangjie Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gjcheng@uab.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.