About the Authors

Hongchao Lu

Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute, Center for Computational Biology, Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lan Lin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Seiko Sato

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Yi Xing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Christopher J. Lee

leec@chem.ucla.edu

Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute, Center for Computational Biology, Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL YX CJL. Performed the experiments: HL LL SS. Analyzed the data: HL YX. Wrote the paper: HL CJL.