About the Authors

Jie Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Dong, Yaping Gao, Yu Liu, Jinxia Shi

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yaping Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Dong, Yaping Gao, Yu Liu, Jinxia Shi

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yu Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Dong, Yaping Gao, Yu Liu, Jinxia Shi

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Jinxia Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Dong, Yaping Gao, Yu Liu, Jinxia Shi

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, People's Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China

Jiannan Feng

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhanguo Li

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, People's Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China

Heping Pan

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yanning Xue

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Chuan Liu

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Beifen Shen

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Ningsheng Shao

shaons@hotmail.com (NS); yanggg@hotmail.com (GY)

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Guang Yang

shaons@hotmail.com (NS); yanggg@hotmail.com (GY)

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JF ZL BS NS GY. Performed the experiments: JD YG YL JS GY. Analyzed the data: YX CL GY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HP. Wrote the paper: GY.