About the Authors

Wei Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Du, Yong Yi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yong Yi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Du, Yong Yi

Affiliation Center of Growth, Metabolism and Aging, College of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Haibo Zhang

Affiliation Center of Growth, Metabolism and Aging, College of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Johann Bergholz

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center of Growth, Metabolism and Aging, College of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Junfeng Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haoqiang Ying

Affiliation The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yujun Zhang

Affiliation Center of Growth, Metabolism and Aging, College of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Zhi-Xiong Jim Xiao

jimzx@scu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center of Growth, Metabolism and Aging, College of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WD JB YZ ZX. Performed the experiments: WD YY HZ JB JW HY. Analyzed the data: WD YY HZ JB YZ ZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZX. Wrote the paper: WD JB ZX.