About the Authors

Shaoying Lu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Mingxing Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jihye Seong

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jin Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shu Chien

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yingxiao Wang

yingxiao@uiuc.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Center of Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL YW. Performed the experiments: SL MO. Analyzed the data: SL MO JS YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL JZ SC. Wrote the paper: SL YW.