Acknowledgements We thank Professor Xueguang Zhang (Soochow University, Suzhou, China) for kindly providing plasmid pGEZ, pHIT456, pHIT60 and 293T cell lines. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30772003 and No. 30170880), Jiangsu Province's Outstanding Medical Academic Leader programme (RC2007057) and Science Development Foundation of Nanjing Medical University (NMUZ009).
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