About the Authors

Lingyu Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingyu Luo, Shanshan Jiang

Affiliation Research Institute of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, China

Shanshan Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingyu Luo, Shanshan Jiang

Affiliation Graduate Program, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, China

Deqiang Huang

hdq0515@163.com (DQH); zluo559914@gmail.com (ZJL)

Affiliation Research Institute of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, China

Nonghua Lu

Affiliation Research Institute of Digestive Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, China

Zhijun Luo

hdq0515@163.com (DQH); zluo559914@gmail.com (ZJL)

Affiliations Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, China, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LYL. Performed the experiments: SSJ. Analyzed the data: DQH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NHL. Wrote the paper: ZJL. Experimental design, interpret data, and write manuscript: ZJL.