About the Authors

Weihao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Weihao Chen, Shaoxi Niu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Urology, General Hospital of the Navy, Beijing, China

Shaoxi Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weihao Chen, Shaoxi Niu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xin Ma

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Peng Zhang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yu Gao

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yang Fan

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Haigang Pang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Huijie Gong

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Donglai Shen

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Liangyou Gu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yu Zhang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xu Zhang

xzhang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Department of Urology, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC SN YZ XZ. Performed the experiments: WC SN HG DS. Analyzed the data: WC SN LG PZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC SN HP. Wrote the paper: WC SN YG YF XM. Fund: XM.