About the Authors

Shenglan Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shenglan Yang, Chen Chen, Hong Wang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Chen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shenglan Yang, Chen Chen, Hong Wang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Hong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shenglan Yang, Chen Chen, Hong Wang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Xiaoquan Rao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Quanlu Duan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Fuqiong Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Guangwen Long

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Wei Gong

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Ming-Hui Zou

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Endocrinology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Dao Wen Wang

dwwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY CC HW DWW. Performed the experiments: SY CC HW XR FW QD FC GL WG. Analyzed the data: SY CC HW MZ DWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW MZ DWW. Wrote the paper: SY CC HW MZ DWW.