About the Authors

Jie Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Meng, Xuelian Cheng

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xuelian Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Meng, Xuelian Cheng

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jian Liu

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Weiqi Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaojin Li

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Hua Kong

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Haiyan Xu

xuhy@pumc.edu.cn

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HX JM XC. Performed the experiments: XC JM. Analyzed the data: HX XC JM WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC WZ XL JL HK. Wrote the paper: HX JM XC.