About the Authors

Yifei Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifei Zhong, Yingwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai Jiantao University and Longhua Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yingwei Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifei Zhong, Yingwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Ruijie Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhengzhe Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yibang Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Todd Evans

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology in Surgery, The Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Chuang

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Bhaskar Das

bcd2004@med.cornell.edu (BD) (BD); cijiang.he@mssm.edu (JCH) (JH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology in Surgery, The Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

John Cijiang He

bcd2004@med.cornell.edu (BD) (BD); cijiang.he@mssm.edu (JCH) (JH)

Affiliations Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCH PC YZ BD. Performed the experiments: YZ YW RL ZL YC BD. Analyzed the data: YZ YC JCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCH BD TE. Wrote the paper: JCH YZ PC BD.