About the Authors

Lu Gan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Gan, Pei-Yan Ni

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Pei-Yan Ni

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Gan, Pei-Yan Ni

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Yan Ge

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Yun-Fei Xiao

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China

Chang-Yan Sun

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Lin Deng

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Si-Si Wu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Ying Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Wei Jiang

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Hong-Bo Xin

xinhb2012@yahoo.com

Affiliations Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China, Institute of Translational Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HBX LG. Performed the experiments: LG PYN YG CYS LD. Analyzed the data: LG PYN YFX WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LG WZ SSW YL. Wrote the paper: LG HBX. Obtained permission for use of cell line: HBX.