About the Authors

Bing Pan

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Institute of Systems Biomedicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Yijing Ma

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Hui Ren

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Yubin He

Affiliation The Military General Hospital of Beijing, Beijing, China

Yongyu Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Xiaofeng Lv

Affiliation The Military General Hospital of Beijing, Beijing, China

Donghui Liu

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Liang Ji

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Baoqi Yu

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Yuhui Wang

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Y. Eugene Chen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Subramaniam Pennathur

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jonathan D. Smith

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

George Liu

zhengl@bjmu.edu.cn (LZ); georgeliu@bjmu.edu.cn (GL)

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Lemin Zheng

zhengl@bjmu.edu.cn (LZ); georgeliu@bjmu.edu.cn (GL)

Affiliations The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Institute of Systems Biomedicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, 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: LZ GL BP. Performed the experiments: BP YM HR DL LJ BY YuW. Analyzed the data: BP YH YuW XL YC SP JS GL LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ GL. Wrote the paper: BP YC SP JS GL LZ.