1 Department of Kidney Transplantation, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
2 Department of Dermatology, the Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
3 Department of Medical Laboratory, School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
4 Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Medical College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
5 Department of Kidney Transplantation, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
6 Department of Dermatology, Dermatology Hospital of Southern Medical University, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Received 17 May 2022. Revision received 19 August 2022.
Accepted 8 September 2022.
K.M. and J.L. contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors. K.M. performed experiments, analyzed data, and wrote the manuscript. J.L. analyzed data and wrote the manuscript. L.L., D.W., and Z.Z. conducted in vitro experiments. F.L. and M.Z. performed in vivo experiments. D.Z. and J.Y. designed the experiments, wrote, and revised the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the manuscript.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no.: 81670683, 82071781), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (grant no.: 2016A030313566).
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Correspondence: Junsheng Ye, MD, PhD, Department of Kidney Transplantation, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 102218, China. ([email protected]); Daming Zuo, PhD, Department of Medical Laboratory, School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China. ([email protected]).