About the Authors

Jiayong Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayong Zhong, Chuanle Xiao, Wei Gu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Chuanle Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayong Zhong, Chuanle Xiao, Wei Gu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayong Zhong, Chuanle Xiao, Wei Gu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Gaofei Du

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Xuesong Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Qing-Yu He

tqyhe@jnu.edu.cn (QYH); zhanggong@jnu.edu.cn (GZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Gong Zhang

tqyhe@jnu.edu.cn (QYH); zhanggong@jnu.edu.cn (GZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ JZ WG. Performed the experiments: JZ WG GD. Analyzed the data: JZ CX WG GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CX XS QYH. Wrote the paper: GZ XS QYH.