About the Authors

Xinghua Shao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinghua Shao, Lei Tian

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Lei Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinghua Shao, Lei Tian

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Weijia Xu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Zhen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Chunlin Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Chaojun Qi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Zhaohui Ni

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Shan Mou

shan_mou@126.com

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM ZN XS LT. Performed the experiments: XS LT. Analyzed the data: XS LT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LT. Wrote the paper: XS LT. Assisted in the analysis: WX ZZ CW CQ. Provided supervision: SM.