About the Authors

Stanley C. K. Cheung

Contributed equally to this work with: Stanley C. K. Cheung, Xiaohang Long

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Xiaohang Long

Contributed equally to this work with: Stanley C. K. Cheung, Xiaohang Long

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Lizhong Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Qiaoquan Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Agricultural College, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China

Linlin Lan

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Peter C. Y. Tong

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Samuel S. M. Sun

ssun@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCKC PCYT SSMS. Performed the experiments: SCKC XHL LZL QQL LLL. Analyzed the data: SCKC XHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XHL SCKC. Wrote the manuscript: XL SCKC.