About the Authors

Yushen Jiang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Tang Jiang

Jiangtang2002@163.com

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Juan Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Qingsong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yanlan Liang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yingpeng Cui

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Peisong Chen

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Bin Huang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJ TJ JO. Analyzed the data: YJ. Wrote the paper: YJ TJ JO. Performed most of the experiments: YJ. Designed and performed the animal experiments: QZ. Designed and performed the in vitro cell stimulation experiments: YL. Designed and performed the RT-PCR experiments: YC. Designed the Western Blot experiments: PC. Designed the RNA interference experiments: BH.