About the Authors

Xiaoying Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoying Li, Hua Tao

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Hua Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoying Li, Hua Tao

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Kewei Xie

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Zhaohui Ni

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Yucheng Yan

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Kai Wei

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Peter Y. Chuang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

John Cijiang He

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Renal Section, James J Peter Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Leyi Gu

guleyi@aliyun.com

Affiliation Renal Division and Molecular Cell Lab for Kidney Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG ZN JCH. Performed the experiments: XL HY KW KX. Analyzed the data: YY LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KX. Wrote the paper: LG PYC.