About the Authors

Qiande Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiande Hu, Yewen Yuan

Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yewen Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiande Hu, Yewen Yuan

Affiliations Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Oral Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chiayeng Wang

chiayeng@uic.edu

Affiliations Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Oral Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW. Performed the experiments: CW QH YY. Analyzed the data: CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW QH YY. Wrote the manuscript: CW. Other: Author contributions: Conceived and designed: CW. Data analysis: CW. Performed experiments: CW QH YY. Reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW QH YY. Wrote paper: CW. QH YY have equal contribution to the study described in this manuscript.