About the Authors

Qing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Chen, Xiao-Fang Liu

Affiliations The Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xiao-Fang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Chen, Xiao-Fang Liu

Affiliations The Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, The Department of Pharmacology, Medical College of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Peng-Sheng Zheng

zpsheng@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Affiliations The Department of Reproductive Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, The Section of Cancer Research, Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QC XFL. Performed the experiments: QC XFL. Analyzed the data: QC XFL PSZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QC. Wrote the paper: QC PSZ.