About the Authors

Xin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Zhang, Shijiang Xiong

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Shijiang Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Zhang, Shijiang Xiong

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Yue Ma

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Ting Han

Affiliation Department of Endodontics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Xinyu Chen

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Fang Wan

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Yating Lu

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Songhe Yan

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Yan Wang

wangyan1965@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliation VIP Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, Shangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW TH. Performed the experiments: XZ SX YL FW. Analyzed the data: XZ SX TH YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM SY. Wrote the paper: XZ TH YW XYC.