About the Authors

Yan-Bing Gong

gongyanbing@bjmu.edu.cn (YBG); shenyangzheng@hotmail.com (JLZ); zbmao@bjmu.edu.cn (ZBM)

Affiliation Laboratory of Ze-Bin Mao, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Jian-Ling Zheng

gongyanbing@bjmu.edu.cn (YBG); shenyangzheng@hotmail.com (JLZ); zbmao@bjmu.edu.cn (ZBM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical Sciences Institute of Liaoning, Shenyang, China

Bo Jin

Affiliation Laboratory of Ze-Bin Mao, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

De-Xiang Zhuo

Affiliation Laboratory of Ze-Bin Mao, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Zhu-Qing Huang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical Sciences Institute of Liaoning, Shenyang, China

He Qi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical Sciences Institute of Liaoning, Shenyang, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical Sciences Institute of Liaoning, Shenyang, China

Wei Duan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical Sciences Institute of Liaoning, Shenyang, China

Ji-Ting Fu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, China

Chui-Jie Wang

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, China

Ze-Bin Mao

gongyanbing@bjmu.edu.cn (YBG); shenyangzheng@hotmail.com (JLZ); zbmao@bjmu.edu.cn (ZBM)

Affiliation Laboratory of Ze-Bin Mao, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YBG JLZ. Performed the experiments: YBG BJ DXZ ZQH HQ WZ WD. Analyzed the data: YBG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YBG JLZ BJ DXZ. Wrote the paper: YBG JLZ ZBM. Collected samples from the patients, enrolled all the clinical data, and performed experiments: JTF CJW.