About the Authors

Run Lei

Contributed equally to this work with: Run Lei, Ke Zhang

Affiliations West China Developmental & Stem Cell Institute, West China Second Hospital, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Neural Development, Laboratory of Developmental and Regenerative biology, Institute of Biomedicine & Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, SARITEX Center for Stem Cell Engineering Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Ke Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Run Lei, Ke Zhang

Affiliations West China Developmental & Stem Cell Institute, West China Second Hospital, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Neural Development, Laboratory of Developmental and Regenerative biology, Institute of Biomedicine & Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, SARITEX Center for Stem Cell Engineering Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yanxia Wei

Affiliation West China Developmental & Stem Cell Institute, West China Second Hospital, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Min Chen

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lee S. Weinstein

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yang Hong

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Minyan Zhu

Affiliation SARITEX Center for Stem Cell Engineering Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Hongchang Li

Hongchang Li hc.li@siat.ac.cn (HCL); Huashun Li huashunli@tongji.edu.cn (HSL)

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Neural Development, Laboratory of Developmental and Regenerative biology, Institute of Biomedicine & Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Huashun Li

Hongchang Li hc.li@siat.ac.cn (HCL); Huashun Li huashunli@tongji.edu.cn (HSL)

Affiliations West China Developmental & Stem Cell Institute, West China Second Hospital, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, SARITEX Center for Stem Cell Engineering Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL KZ. Performed the experiments: RL KZ. Analyzed the data: RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YXW LSW YH MYZ. Wrote the paper: RL HCL HSL. Made the floxed Gsa mice: MC.