About the Authors

Juanjuan Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Juanjuan Xiao, Yabiao Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yabiao Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Juanjuan Xiao, Yabiao Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yinghui Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ping Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Jianguo Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Fangyuan Shen

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Lixia Fan

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Vijay Kumar Kolluri

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Weiping Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Xiaolong Yan

47260934@qq.com (XLY); mhwang@suda.edu.cn (MHW)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Minghua Wang

47260934@qq.com (XLY); mhwang@suda.edu.cn (MHW)

Affiliation Department of Biochemical and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLY MHW WPW. Performed the experiments: JJX YBZ YHZ PZ. Analyzed the data: YBZ LXF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJX JGW FYS. Wrote the paper: JJX YBZ VKK.