About the Authors

Hang Wang

Affiliations Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Urology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Qinggang Li

Affiliations Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Juan Liu

Affiliation Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cathy Mendelsohn

Affiliation Department of Urology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

David J. Salant

Affiliation Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Weining Lu

wlu@bu.edu

Affiliation Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW WL. Performed the experiments: HW QL JL CM WL. Analyzed the data: HW QL JL CM DJS WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM DJS WL. Wrote the paper: HW DJS WL.