About the Authors

Bingqian Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingqian Qu, Xue Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Medical School and the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Xue Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingqian Qu, Xue Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Medical School and the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Carol J. Cardona

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Zheng Xing

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

zxing@umn.edu

Affiliations Medical School and the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.