About the Authors

Yao Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Song, Jialin Xu, Yanfeng Li

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory peptides, Ministry of Health and Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Jialin Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Song, Jialin Xu, Yanfeng Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yanfeng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Song, Jialin Xu, Yanfeng Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Chunshi Jia

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiaowei Ma

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory peptides, Ministry of Health and Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiaojie Xie

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Yong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiang Gao

dhzhu@pumc.edu.cn (DZ); zhangyy@bjmu.edu.cn (YZ); gaoxiang@nju.edu.cn (XG)

Affiliation National Resource Center for Mutant Mice Model Animal Research of Nanjing University, Pukou High-Tech District, Nanjing, China

Youyi Zhang

dhzhu@pumc.edu.cn (DZ); zhangyy@bjmu.edu.cn (YZ); gaoxiang@nju.edu.cn (XG)

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory peptides, Ministry of Health and Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Dahai Zhu

dhzhu@pumc.edu.cn (DZ); zhangyy@bjmu.edu.cn (YZ); gaoxiang@nju.edu.cn (XG)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ Youyi Zhang. Performed the experiments: YS JX YL. Analyzed the data: CJ XM LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XX Yong Zhang XG. Wrote the paper: YS JX.