About the Authors

Yang Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yan-Ling Guo

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Guang-Lu Jiang

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shi-Jie Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Qi Sun

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xi Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiu-Jun Chang

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Ai-Ying Xing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Feng-Jiao Du

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Hong-Yan Jia

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Zong-De Zhang

zzd417@163.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tuberculosis, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL Y-LG. Performed the experiments: YL Y-LG G-LJ XC A-YX. Analyzed the data: YL Y-LG Z-DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: G-LJ X-JC QS S-JZ F-JD H-YJ. Wrote the paper: YL Y-LG Z-DZ.