About the Authors

Lingling Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Fan, Chuanrui Xu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Application, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chuanrui Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Fan, Chuanrui Xu

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chunmei Wang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Junyan Tao

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Coral Ho

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lijie Jiang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Bing Gui

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shiang Huang

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell Research and Application, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Matthias Evert

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Diego F. Calvisi

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Xin Chen

xin.chen@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Liver Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC SH LF DC. Performed the experiments: LF CX CW CH LJ BG JT ME DC. Analyzed the data: LF CX SH XC ME DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH XC. Wrote the paper: LF XC DC.