About the Authors

Ting Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Zhang, Xiao-Jing Luo, Wen-Bo Sai, Meng-Fei Yu

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Xiao-Jing Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Zhang, Xiao-Jing Luo, Wen-Bo Sai, Meng-Fei Yu

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Wen-Bo Sai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Zhang, Xiao-Jing Luo, Wen-Bo Sai, Meng-Fei Yu

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Meng-Fei Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Zhang, Xiao-Jing Luo, Wen-Bo Sai, Meng-Fei Yu

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Wen-Er Li

Current address: Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Georg-August- University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Yun-Fei Ma

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Weiwei Chen

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Kui Zhai

Affiliation National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Gangjian Qin

Affiliation Department of Medicine-Cardiology, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Donglin Guo

Affiliations Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research & Main Line Health Heart Center, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yun-Min Zheng

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Yong-Xiao Wang

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jin-Hua Shen

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Guangju Ji

liu258q@yahoo.com (QHL); gj28@sun5.ibp.ac.cn (GJ)

Affiliation National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qing-Hua Liu

liu258q@yahoo.com (QHL); gj28@sun5.ibp.ac.cn (GJ)

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology & Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG YMZ YXW GJ QHL. Performed the experiments: TZ XJL WBS WEL YFM WC KZ. Analyzed the data: TZ XJL WBS WEL YFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHS QHL. Wrote the paper: MFY GQ DG YMZ YXW GJ JHS QHL.