About the Authors

Qianyu Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jing Li

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Tissue Engineering, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhihong Wu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jianguo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Wei Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Tao Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yujuan Yan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ying Jiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Robert Chunhua Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Chunhua Zhao, Guixing Qiu

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Tissue Engineering, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Guixing Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Chunhua Zhao, Guixing Qiu

qiuguixingpumch@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GQ RCZ QZ ZW YJ. Performed the experiments: QZ JL TL YY. Analyzed the data: QZ JL WS YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL JZ YY. Wrote the paper: QZ JL WS.