About the Authors

Cong-Fa Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cong-Fa Huang, Lu Zhang, Si-Rui Ma

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Lu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cong-Fa Huang, Lu Zhang, Si-Rui Ma

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Si-Rui Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Cong-Fa Huang, Lu Zhang, Si-Rui Ma

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhi-Li Zhao

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Wei-Ming Wang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Ke-Fei He

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yi-Fang Zhao

Affiliations The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head Neck Oncology, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Wen-Feng Zhang

Affiliations The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head Neck Oncology, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Bing Liu

zhijundejia@163.com (Z-JS); liubing9909@126.com (BL)

Affiliations The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head Neck Oncology, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhi-Jun Sun

zhijundejia@163.com (Z-JS); liubing9909@126.com (BL)

Affiliations The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head Neck Oncology, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL Z-JS. Performed the experiments: C-FH LZ S-RM Z-LZ W-MW K-FH. Analyzed the data: C-FH Y-FZ W-FZ BL Z-JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL Z-JS. Wrote the paper: C-FH Z-JS. Contributed to prepare immunohistochemical tissue and work on the critical revision of the paper: Y-FZ W-FZ BL Z-JS.