About the Authors

Qingling Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingling Yang, Ding Zhang

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Ding Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingling Yang, Ding Zhang

Affiliations Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Department of Biological Sciences, Bengbu Medical Collage, Bengbu, China

Mei Leng

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Ling Yang

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Liangwen Zhong

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Howard J. Cooke

Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Qinghua Shi

qshi@ustc.edu.cn

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QY QS DZ. Performed the experiments: QY DZ LY LZ. Analyzed the data: QY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QY ML. Wrote the paper: QY. Revised the first draft: HJC. Directed the work: QS.