About the Authors

Yue Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Shen, Yongzhi Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Yongzhi Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Shen, Yongzhi Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Chun Du

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Malgorzata Wilczynska

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Sten Hellström

Affiliation Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Tor Ny

tor.ny@medchem.umu.se

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS YG TN. Performed the experiments: YS YG CD. Analyzed the data: YS YG TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TN. Wrote the paper: YS YG MW SH TN.