About the Authors

Guan-Xian Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guan-Xian Liu, You-Qi Li

hylan@cuhk.edu.hk (HYL); liyouqi0330@163.com (GXL)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Central Municipal Hospital of Huizhou, Guangdong, China

You-Qi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Guan-Xian Liu, You-Qi Li

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Central Municipal Hospital of Huizhou, Guangdong, China

Xiao R. Huang

Affiliations CUHK Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Lihua Wei

Affiliation CUHK Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Hai-Yong Chen

Affiliation CUHK Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Yong-Jun Shi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Central Municipal Hospital of Huizhou, Guangdong, China

Rainer L. Heuchel

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Hui Y. Lan

hylan@cuhk.edu.hk (HYL); liyouqi0330@163.com (GXL)

Affiliations CUHK Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GXL HYL. Performed the experiments: YQL XRH LW. Analyzed the data: HYC YJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLH. Wrote the paper: YQL RLH HYL.