About the Authors

Xiao-Hui Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Hui Xu, Hai-Ying Sun

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Hai-Ying Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Hui Xu, Hai-Ying Sun

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yan-Hui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Wei Wu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Kui-Hao Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yi Liu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chun-Yu Deng

Affiliation Research Centre, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Xi-Yong Yu

Affiliation Research Centre, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Man-Wen Jin

grli@hkucc.hku.hk (GRL); mwjin@mail.tjmu.edu.cn (MWJ)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Gui-Rong Li

grli@hkucc.hku.hk (GRL); mwjin@mail.tjmu.edu.cn (MWJ)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GRL MWJ. Performed the experiments: XHX HYS YHZ WW KHC YL. Analyzed the data: HYS GRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYD XYY. Wrote the paper: GRL.