About the Authors

Erlin Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Erlin Song, Xin Ma

Affiliations Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China, Department of Urology, Chinese PLA 211 Hospital, Harbin, China

Xin Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Erlin Song, Xin Ma

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Hongzhao Li

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Peng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Dong Ni

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Weihao Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Yu Gao

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Yang Fan

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Haigang Pang

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Taoping Shi

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Qiang Ding

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Baojun Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Yu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Xu Zhang

xzhang@foxmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology/State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital/Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XM XZ HL. Performed the experiments: ES PZ DN WC YG YF HP. Analyzed the data: TS QD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW YZ. Wrote the paper: ES.