About the Authors

Haiyan Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Xia, Yun Cao, Xiaoman Dai

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Yun Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Xia, Yun Cao, Xiaoman Dai

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Xiaoman Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Xia, Yun Cao, Xiaoman Dai

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Zvonimir Marelja

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Di Zhou

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ran Mo

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Sahar Al-Mahdawi

Affiliation Division of Biosciences, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Mark A. Pook

Affiliation Division of Biosciences, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Silke Leimkühler

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Tracey A. Rouault

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kuanyu Li

likuanyu@nju.edu.cn

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAR KL. Performed the experiments: HX YC ZM XD DZ RM SA KL. Analyzed the data: SL MAP TAR KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL MAP TAR KL. Wrote the paper: HX MAP TAR KL.