About the Authors

Wei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Liu, Lin-Jun Shi

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Department of Oral Maxillofacial–Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lin-Jun Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Liu, Lin-Jun Shi

Affiliation Department of Oral Mucosal Diseases, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lan Wu

Affiliation Department of Oral Mucosal Diseases, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jin-Qiu Feng

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Shanghai Municipal Hospital for Oral Health, Shanghai, China

Xi Yang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Department of Oral Maxillofacial–Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jiang Li

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zeng-Tong Zhou

liuweb@hotmail.com (ZTZ); zhang.chenping@hotmail.com (CPZ)

Affiliation Department of Oral Mucosal Diseases, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Chen-Ping Zhang

liuweb@hotmail.com (ZTZ); zhang.chenping@hotmail.com (CPZ)

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Department of Oral Maxillofacial–Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZTZ CPZ. Performed the experiments: WL JL. Analyzed the data: LJS LW JQF XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL ZTZ CPZ. Wrote the paper: WL LJS.