About the Authors

Yang Li

liyang@bjmu.edu.cn (YL); nmliudongjun@sina.com (DL)

Affiliations Stem Cell Research Center, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Department of Cell Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Ming Cang

Affiliation Lab Animal Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, China

Andrew Stephen Lee

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kehua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunity, Clinical Medicine Institute, China Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Dongjun Liu

liyang@bjmu.edu.cn (YL); nmliudongjun@sina.com (DL)

Affiliation Lab Animal Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL DJL. Performed the experiments: YL MC KHZ ASL. Analyzed the data: YL MC ASL. Wrote the paper: YL ASL.