About the Authors

Mian Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Mian Wan, Bo Gao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Bo Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Mian Wan, Bo Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Feifei Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yin Tang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Ling Ye

Affiliation West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yi Fan

Affiliation West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Ophir D. Klein

Affiliation Program in Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology and Departments of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xuedong Zhou

zhouxd@scu.edu.cn (XDZ); zhenglw399@hotmail.com (LWZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Liwei Zheng

zhouxd@scu.edu.cn (XDZ); zhenglw399@hotmail.com (LWZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW BG XDZ LWZ. Performed the experiments: MW FFS YT YF. Analyzed the data: MW BG LY ODK LWZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XDZ. Wrote the paper: MW XDZ ODK LWZ.