About the Authors

Jiao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiao Liu, Xiong Ding, Jia Tang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiong Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiao Liu, Xiong Ding, Jia Tang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Jia Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiao Liu, Xiong Ding, Jia Tang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Youde Cao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Peng Hu

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Fan Zhou

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiaoliang Shan

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xuefei Cai

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Qingmei Chen

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ning Ling

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bingqiang Zhang

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yang Bi

Affiliation Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, The Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ke Chen

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hong Ren

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ailong Huang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Tong-Chuan He

Affiliations Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, The Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ni Tang

nitang809@163.com

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT JL XD. Performed the experiments: JL XD JT SWL FZ QMC. Analyzed the data: NT JL YDC XFC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLS YB BQZ PH HR. Wrote the paper: NT TCH.