About the Authors

Juanjuan Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Juanjuan Zhao, Yonggang Li

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Yonggang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Juanjuan Zhao, Yonggang Li

Affiliation Integrative Medicine Center, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Lei Jin

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Shuye Zhang

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Rong Fan

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Yanling Sun

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Chunbao Zhou

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Qinghua Shang

Affiliation Department of Liver Disease, Tai-An 88 Hospital, Tai-An, Shan Dong Province, China

Wengang Li

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Zheng Zhang

fswang302@163.com (F-SW); zhangzheng1975@yahoo.com.cn (ZZ)

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Fu-Sheng Wang

fswang302@163.com (F-SW); zhangzheng1975@yahoo.com.cn (ZZ)

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, Research Center for Biological Therapy, Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJZ ZZ YGL F-SW. Performed the experiments: JJZ YGL LJ SYZ RF YLS CBZ. Analyzed the data: JJZ ZZ CBZ SYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJZ CBZ QHS. Wrote the paper: JJZ ZZ F-SW. Enrolled patients: YGL JL RF YLS QHS WGL. Sampled: YGL JL RF YLS QHS.