About the Authors

Xing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Chen, Yuping Du

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Yuping Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Chen, Yuping Du

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Jing Nan

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Xinxin Zhang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Xiaodong Qin

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Yuxin Wang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Jianwen Hou

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Qin Wang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Jinbo Yang

yangjb@lzu.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China, Department of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC YD JY. Performed the experiments: XC YD JN XZ JY. Analyzed the data: XC YD JN XQ YW JH QW JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC YD JY. Wrote the paper: XC YD JY.