About the Authors

Zhihua Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihua Qiu, Xiao Chen, Yanzhao Zhou, Jibin Lin

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xiao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihua Qiu, Xiao Chen, Yanzhao Zhou, Jibin Lin

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yanzhao Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihua Qiu, Xiao Chen, Yanzhao Zhou, Jibin Lin

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jibin Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihua Qiu, Xiao Chen, Yanzhao Zhou, Jibin Lin

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Dan Ding

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shijun Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Fen Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Min Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Feng Zhu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xian Yu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zihua Zhou

liaoyh27@163.com (YL); zzhua2001@163.com (ZZ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yuhua Liao

liaoyh27@163.com (YL); zzhua2001@163.com (ZZ)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapies of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHL ZHZ ZHQ XC. Performed the experiments: ZHQ XC YZZ JBL DD SJY FC MW FZ XY. Analyzed the data: YHL ZHZ ZHQ XC YZZ JBL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZHQ XC YZZ JBL DD SJY FC MW FZ XY. Wrote the paper: YHL ZHZ ZHQ XC.