About the Authors

Zexian Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zexian Liu, Jun Cao

Affiliations Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jun Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zexian Liu, Jun Cao

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Xinjiao Gao

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Qian Ma

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Jian Ren

xueyu@mail.hust.edu.cn (YX); renjian.sysu@gmail.com (JR)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yu Xue

xueyu@mail.hust.edu.cn (YX); renjian.sysu@gmail.com (JR)

Affiliation Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX JR. Performed the experiments: ZL JC JR YX. Analyzed the data: ZL JC JR YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG QM. Wrote the paper: ZL JC JR YX.