About the Authors

Longbo Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Longbo Hu, Leike Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Leike Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Longbo Hu, Leike Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Hongbin Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Yanli Gu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Tao Peng

peng_tao@gibh.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP LH LL. Performed the experiments: LH LL YG. Analyzed the data: TP LH LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX. Wrote the paper: TP LH LL.