About the Authors

Xiaofeng Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofeng Ye, Haozhe Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Haozhe Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofeng Ye, Haozhe Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Jingxin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Haiqing Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Jun Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Zhe Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Anqing Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Qiang Zhao

zq11607@rjh.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Cell culture: HL ZW. Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ. Performed the experiments: XY HW. Analyzed the data: JZ JL AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XY HW. Wrote the paper: HL ZW.