About the Authors

Haibin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haibin Wang, Huirong Xie

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Huirong Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Haibin Wang, Huirong Xie

Current address: Division of Reproductive Sciences, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Sudhansu K. Dey

sk.dey@cchmc.org

Current address: Division of Reproductive Sciences, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW HX SKD. Performed the experiments: HW HX. Analyzed the data: HW HX SKD. Wrote the paper: HW SKD.