About the Authors

Ting Zou

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Yi Yang

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Fei Xia

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Anfei Huang

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Xiaoming Gao

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Deyu Fang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sidong Xiong

j_pzhang@suda.edu.cn (JPZ); sdxiong@suda.edu.cn (SDX)

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Jinping Zhang

j_pzhang@suda.edu.cn (JPZ); sdxiong@suda.edu.cn (SDX)

Affiliation Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XMG SDX JPZ. Performed the experiments: TZ YY FX AFH DYF JPZ. Analyzed the data: TZ JPZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ YY FX AFH DYF JPZ. Wrote the manuscript: TZ JPZ.