About the Authors

Yan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Jia Kou

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jia Kou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Jia Kou

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xue-Guang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Shu-Wen Liu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xue-Ying Cao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yuan-Da Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Ri-Bao Wei

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Guang-Yan Cai

caiguangyan@sina.com (GYC); xmchen301@126.com (XMC)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiang-Mei Chen

caiguangyan@sina.com (GYC); xmchen301@126.com (XMC)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GYC XMC. Performed the experiments: YZ JK. Analyzed the data: YZ JK GYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XGZ LZ SWL XYC YDW RBW. Wrote the paper: YZ JK GYC XMC.