About the Authors

Ruilin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruilin Yang, Yonghua Han

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China, Guangzhou Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, China, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Yonghua Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruilin Yang, Yonghua Han

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

Yiwang Ye

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

Yuchen Liu

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Zhimao Jiang

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

Yaoting Gui

guiyaoting2007@yahoo.com.cn (YG); caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZC)

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

Zhiming Cai

guiyaoting2007@yahoo.com.cn (YG); caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZC)

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China, Urogenital Institute of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RY ZC. Performed the experiments: RY. Analyzed the data: RY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RY YH YY ZJ YL YG. Wrote the paper: RY. Obtained permission for use of cell line: ZJ.