About the Authors

Nan Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China, Medical College, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Qinggang Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Li Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Hongli Lin

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Liaoning, China

Jie Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Diangeng Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Suozhu Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Shaoyuan Cui

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Jianhui Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Jiayao Ji

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China, Medical College, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Jiajia Wan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China, Medical College, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Guangyan Cai

xmchen301@126.com (XC); caiguangyan@sina.com (GC)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Xiangmei Chen

xmchen301@126.com (XC); caiguangyan@sina.com (GC)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Nephrology, PLA General Hospital and Military Medical Postgraduate College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NW XC GC QL LZ HL. Performed the experiments: NW JH DL JJ JW. Analyzed the data: NW XC GC QL LZ HL JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS JZ SC. Wrote the paper: NW JZ. Paper revision: XC QL.