About the Authors

Qi Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Sun, Susu Mao

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Susu Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Sun, Susu Mao

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Hanqin Li

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ke Zen

kzen@nju.edu.cn (KZ); cyzhang@nju.eud.cn (CYZ); lijing@sibs.ac.cn (LL)

Affiliations Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Department of Virology, University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Chen-Yu Zhang

kzen@nju.edu.cn (KZ); cyzhang@nju.eud.cn (CYZ); lijing@sibs.ac.cn (LL)

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Liang Li

kzen@nju.edu.cn (KZ); cyzhang@nju.eud.cn (CYZ); lijing@sibs.ac.cn (LL)

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL CYZ KZ. Performed the experiments: QS SM HL. Analyzed the data: QS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYZ. Wrote the manuscript: LL KZ.