About the Authors

Qiong Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiong Wei, Dejun Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Dejun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiong Wei, Dejun Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Anna Yao

Affiliation Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Liyi Mai

Affiliation Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhiwei Zhang

Affiliation Hepatic Surgery Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qibing Zhou

qibingzhou@hust.edu.cn

Affiliations Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ. Performed the experiments: QW DZ AY LM. Analyzed the data: QZ QW DZ ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ. Wrote the paper: QZ.