About the Authors

Lei Yue

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Zheng Pang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hua Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Ting Yang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Lei Guo

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Longding Liu

Roles Resources

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Junjie Mei

Roles Resources

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xia Song

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Tianhong Xie

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Ye Zhang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xin He

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Tong-Jun Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

xzp218@126.com (ZX); tong-jun.lin@dal.ca (TJL)

Affiliations The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Zhongping Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

xzp218@126.com (ZX); tong-jun.lin@dal.ca (TJL)

Affiliation The Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.