About the Authors

Yu-Liang Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Liang Zheng, Yang-Peng Sun

Affiliations Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China, Guangdong Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Yang-Peng Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Liang Zheng, Yang-Peng Sun

kouqiangzzg@hotmail.com (ZZ); sunyp@mail2.sysu.edu.cn (YS)

Affiliation Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Wen-Jing Liu

Affiliations Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Rui Jiang

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Wen-Yu Li

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

You-Hua Zheng

Affiliation Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Zhi-Guang Zhang

kouqiangzzg@hotmail.com (ZZ); sunyp@mail2.sysu.edu.cn (YS)

Affiliation Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPS YLZ ZGZ. Performed the experiments: YPS YLZ HZ WJL YHZ. Analyzed the data: YPS YLZ HZ WJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPS YLZ HZ RJ. Wrote the paper: YPS YLZ ZGZ WYL. Guided conception of the study, advised and oversaw the work: ZGZ YPS.