About the Authors

Sai-Qun Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Sai-Qun Luo, Jing-Ping Hu

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Jing-Ping Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Sai-Qun Luo, Jing-Ping Hu

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Qiang Qu

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Jiang Li

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Wei Ren

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Jia-Ming Zhang

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Yan Zhong

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Wei-Xin Hu

weixinhu@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Molecular Biology Research Center, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WXH. Performed the experiments: SQL JPH QQ JL WR JMZ YZ WXH. Analyzed the data: SQL JPH QQ JL WXH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SQL JL. Wrote the paper: WXH JPH.