About the Authors

Yixin He

Contributed equally to this work with: Yixin He, Min Du

Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Complex Prescription, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China, Department of Pharmacognosy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Min Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Yixin He, Min Du

Affiliation Unit of Immune Signaling and Regulation, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China

Yan Gao

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Complex Prescription, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China

Hongshuai Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Complex Prescription, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China

Hongwei Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Complex Prescription, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China

Xiaojun Wu

xiaojunwu320@126.com (XW); wangzht@hotmail.com (ZW)

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Complex Prescription, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China

Zhengtao Wang

xiaojunwu320@126.com (XW); wangzht@hotmail.com (ZW)

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Complex Prescription, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH MD XW ZW. Performed the experiments: YH MD YG HL HW XW. Analyzed the data: MD XW ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH MD YG HL HW XW. Wrote the paper: XW ZW.