About the Authors

Wei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Wang, Fang Gu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China

Fang Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Wang, Fang Gu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China

Cai Wei

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China

Yigui Tang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China

Xin Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China

Mingqiang Ren

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China, Georgia Health Sciences University Cancer Center, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Yide Qin

yideqin@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQ WW FG. Performed the experiments: WW FG CW YT XZ MR. Analyzed the data: YQ MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YQ. Wrote the paper: YQ. Reviewed the manuscript: MR.