About the Authors

Guihua Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihua Liu, Xiangzhou Sun, Jun Bian

Affiliations Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiangzhou Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihua Liu, Xiangzhou Sun, Jun Bian

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Jun Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihua Liu, Xiangzhou Sun, Jun Bian

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Rongpei Wu

Affiliations Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Xuan Guan

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Bin Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yanping Huang

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Haipeng Xiao

xiaohp@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HX); yzhang@wakehealth.edu (YZ); dch0313@163.com (CD)

Affiliation Department of endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Daosheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Urology, Dongguan People’s Hospital, Dongguan, People’s Republic of China

Anthony Atala

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yuanyuan Zhang

xiaohp@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HX); yzhang@wakehealth.edu (YZ); dch0313@163.com (CD)

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Chunhua Deng

xiaohp@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HX); yzhang@wakehealth.edu (YZ); dch0313@163.com (CD)

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD YYZ HX. Performed the experiments: GL XS JB. Analyzed the data: GL XS JB RW XG BO YH DL CD YYZ HX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CD AA YYZ. Wrote the paper: GL YYZ.