About the Authors

Lianfeng Shan

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Ming Li

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Jianzhong Ma

jzma@mail.cmu.edu.cn (JM); hdzhang@mail.cmu.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Huidan Zhang

jzma@mail.cmu.edu.cn (JM); hdzhang@mail.cmu.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

No authors declared any potential conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS JM HZ. Performed the experiments: LS ML HZ. Analyzed the data: LS ML JM HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS HZ. Wrote the paper: LF ML JM HZ.