About the Authors

Shufeng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Li, Jiahuang Li, Jian Cheng, Bingrong Zhou, Xin Tong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jiahuang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Li, Jiahuang Li, Jian Cheng, Bingrong Zhou, Xin Tong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jian Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Li, Jiahuang Li, Jian Cheng, Bingrong Zhou, Xin Tong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Bingrong Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Li, Jiahuang Li, Jian Cheng, Bingrong Zhou, Xin Tong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Xin Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Li, Jiahuang Li, Jian Cheng, Bingrong Zhou, Xin Tong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Xiangbai Dong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Zixing Wang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Qingang Hu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Meng Chen

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Zi-Chun Hua

zchua@nju.edu.cn

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH. Performed the experiments: SL JC XD ZW MC. Analyzed the data: ZH SL JL JC. Wrote the paper: ZH SL JL. Other: Collected samples: XT BZ. Clinical diagnosis: BZ QH.