About the Authors

Zi-Huan Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-Huan Yang, Hai-Jie Yu

Affiliation The School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Hai-Jie Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-Huan Yang, Hai-Jie Yu

Affiliation The School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ao Pan

Affiliation The School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jian-Yang Du

Affiliation The School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ye-Chun Ruan

Affiliation The School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wing-Hung Ko

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Hsiao-Chang Chan

hsiaocchan@cuhk.edu.hk (H-CC); lsszwl@mail.sysu.edu.cn (W-LZ)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Wen-Liang Zhou

hsiaocchan@cuhk.edu.hk (H-CC); lsszwl@mail.sysu.edu.cn (W-LZ)

Affiliation The School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZHY WLZ. Performed the experiments: ZHY HJY JYD YCR. Analyzed the data: AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYD WHK HCC. Wrote the paper: ZHY. Assisted in writing: WHK HCC.