About the Authors

Min Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Zhang, Min Hou

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Min Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Zhang, Min Hou

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Lihua Ge

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Congcong Miao

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jianfei Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xinying Jing

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Ni Shi

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Tong Chen

xftang10@yahoo.com (XFT); tong.chen@osumc.edu (TC)

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xiaofei Tang

xftang10@yahoo.com (XFT); tong.chen@osumc.edu (TC)

Affiliation Institute of Dental Research, Beijing Stomatological Hospital and School of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFT TC. Performed the experiments: MZ MH. Analyzed the data: XFT TC JFZ NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LHG CCM XYJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MZ MH XFT TC JFZ NS.