About the Authors

Yan Gao

Affiliations Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Department of Anatomy, Capital Medical University, Peking, China

Yanfeng Li

Affiliation Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Xing Guo

Affiliation Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Zhenguo Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenguo Wu, Wei Zhang

bczgwu@ust.hk (ZW); zhangweisapce@gmail.com (WZ)

Affiliations Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Biomedical Research Institute, Shenzhen-PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Wei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenguo Wu, Wei Zhang

bczgwu@ust.hk (ZW); zhangweisapce@gmail.com (WZ)

Affiliations Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Biomedical Research Institute, Shenzhen-PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Ji-Nan University–Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joint Lab, College of Pharmacy, Ji-Nan University, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ ZW. Performed the experiments: YG YL XG WZ. Analyzed the data: YG WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG YL XG. Wrote the paper: WZ.