About the Authors

Wentian Chen

Affiliation Laboratory for Functional Glycomics, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Yaogang Zhong

Affiliation Laboratory for Functional Glycomics, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Yannan Qin

Affiliation Laboratory for Functional Glycomics, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Shisheng Sun

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Clinical Chemistry Division, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zheng Li

zhengli@nwu.edu.cn

Affiliation Laboratory for Functional Glycomics, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC YZ SS. Performed the experiments: WC YZ. Analyzed the data: WC YZ YQ ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC SS ZL. Wrote the paper: WC YQ ZL. Designed the program used in analysis: WC ZL.