About the Authors

Chunyan Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunyan Niu, Jiayu Zhang, Feng Gao

Affiliation Laboratory of Non-coding RNA, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jiayu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunyan Niu, Jiayu Zhang, Feng Gao

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry & Center for Structural Biology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Feng Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunyan Niu, Jiayu Zhang, Feng Gao

Affiliation Laboratory of Non-coding RNA, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Liuqing Yang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry & Center for Structural Biology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Minze Jia

Affiliation Laboratory of Non-coding RNA, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Haining Zhu

haining@email.uky.edu (HZ); wgong@ibp.ac.cn (WG)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry & Center for Structural Biology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Weimin Gong

haining@email.uky.edu (HZ); wgong@ibp.ac.cn (WG)

Affiliation Laboratory of Non-coding RNA, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ WG. Performed the experiments: CN JZ FG LY. Analyzed the data: CN JZ FG LY MJ HZ WG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CN JZ FG LY MJ. Wrote the paper: CN MJ HZ WG.