About the Authors
- Qiande Hu
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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
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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
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* E-mail: 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.