About the Authors

Chungen Pan

Affiliations Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Byron Cheung

Affiliation Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Suiyi Tan

Affiliations Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chunling Li

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Lin Li

Affiliations Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Shuwen Liu

Affiliation Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Shibo Jiang

sjiang@nybloodcenter.org

Affiliations Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP SJ. Analyzed the data: CP BC ST CL LL SL SJ. Wrote the paper: CP SJ.