About the Authors

Rui Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Du, Wenjuan Sun, Lin Xia, Ali Zhao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Wenjuan Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Du, Wenjuan Sun, Lin Xia, Ali Zhao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Lin Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Du, Wenjuan Sun, Lin Xia, Ali Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology & Xijing Digestive Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Ali Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Du, Wenjuan Sun, Lin Xia, Ali Zhao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Yan Yu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Lijuan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Hanmin Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Chen Huang

Chenhuang@fmmu.edu.cn (CH); Sunshiren@fmmu.edu.cn (SS)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Shiren Sun

Chenhuang@fmmu.edu.cn (CH); Sunshiren@fmmu.edu.cn (SS)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People's Republic China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD CH SS. Performed the experiments: RD WS AZ LX YY LZ. Analyzed the data: RD CH SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZ LX HW. Wrote the paper: RD WS LX. Performed primers design qRT-PCR, immunofluorescence and Western Blot: RD WS AZ. Performed plasmids construction and report gene assay: LX. Performed immunohistochemistry and specimens collection: YY LZ.