About the Authors

TingTing Zhao

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

SiFan Sun

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

HaoJun Zhang

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

XiaoRu Huang

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, and Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

MeiHua Yan

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Xi Dong

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

YuMin Wen

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Hua Wang

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Hui Yao Lan

lp8675@163.com (PL); hylan@cuhk.edu.hk (HL)

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, and Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Ping Li

lp8675@163.com (PL); hylan@cuhk.edu.hk (HL)

Affiliation Beijing Key Lab for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL HYL TTZ. Performed the experiments: TTZ SFS HJZ MHY XD YMW HW. Analyzed the data: TTZ SFS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XRH. Wrote the paper: TTZ HYL.