About the Authors

Bing Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Shen, Xiang Li

Affiliations Department of Physiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Shen, Xiang Li

Affiliation Morningside Laboratory for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Fei Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xiaoqiang Yao

yao2068@cuhk.edu.hk (XY) (XY); yangdan@hku.hk (DY) (DY)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Dan Yang

yao2068@cuhk.edu.hk (XY) (XY); yangdan@hku.hk (DY) (DY)

Affiliation Morningside Laboratory for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS XL XY DY. Performed the experiments: BS XL FW. Analyzed the data: BS XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XY DY. Wrote the paper: BS XL. Critically revised the manuscript: XY DY. Final approval of the version for publication: XY DY.