About the Authors

Lian Jin

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Qingqing Qin

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yu Wang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yingying Pu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Lifang Liu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xing Wen

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Shaoyi Ji

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jianguo Wu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Chunhong Wei

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Biao Ding

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Yi Li

liyi@pku.edu.cn

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJ LL YL. Performed the experiments: LJ QQ YW YP LL XW SJ JW. Analyzed the data: LJ QQ YW YP LL XW JW CW BD YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJ QQ YW LL XW SJ JW YL. Wrote the paper: LJ QQ CW BD YL.