About the Authors

Boping Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Boping Ye, Qi Rui

Affiliations College of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China, Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease in Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Qi Rui

Contributed equally to this work with: Boping Ye, Qi Rui

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease in Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Qiuli Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease in Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Dayong Wang

dayongw@seu.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease in Ministry of Education, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW. Performed the experiments: BY QR QW. Analyzed the data: BY QR QW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BY QR QW.