About the Authors

Yan Zhuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhuang, Yi Li

Affiliations Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Ruijin Road II, Shanghai 200025, China, Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Yi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhuang, Yi Li

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Xuefeng Li

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Qing Xie

min.wu@med.und.edu (MW); xieqingrjh@163.com (QX)

Affiliation Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Ruijin Road II, Shanghai 200025, China

Min Wu

min.wu@med.und.edu (MW); xieqingrjh@163.com (QX)

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ YL MW. Performed the experiments: YZ YL. Analyzed the data: YZ YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QX MW. Wrote the paper: YZ YL MW. Helped to the experiment optimization: XL.