About the Authors

Qi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Li, Junli Guo

Affiliation Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Reproductive Medicine and Genetic Research, Cardiovascular Disease and Research Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, Haikou, Hainan, China

Junli Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Li, Junli Guo

Affiliations Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Reproductive Medicine and Genetic Research, Cardiovascular Disease and Research Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, Haikou, Hainan, China, Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Medicine, Hainan Medical College, Haikou, Hainan, China

Xi Lin

Affiliation Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiangsheng Yang

Affiliation Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yanlin Ma

Affiliation Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Reproductive Medicine and Genetic Research, Cardiovascular Disease and Research Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, Haikou, Hainan, China

Guo-Chang Fan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jiang Chang

jchang@ibt.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC. Performed the experiments: QL XL XY YM JG. Analyzed the data: QL XL XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GCF. Wrote the manuscript: JC JG XL.