Ministry of Science and Technology(China)grants(2018YFA0507002 to H.E.X.);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2019SHZDZX02 to H.E.X.);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(H.E.X.);CAS Strategic Priority Research Program(XDB37030103 to H.E.X.);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32130022 to H.E.X.,32171189 to W.Y.,and 31770796 to Y.J.);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(2021278 to W.Y.);National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars(82122067 to W.Y.);Key tasks of the Lingang Laboratory(LG202103-03-05 to W.Y.,and LG202101-01-03 to Y.X.);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2021M703341 to H.C.);National Science and Technology Major Project(2018ZX09711002 to Y.J.).In addition,this work was partially supported by High-level new R&D institute(2019B090904008);High-level Innovative Research Institute(2021B0909050003)from Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province;W.Y.also gratefully acknowledges the support of Sanofi Scholarship Program.
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This work was supported by grants from the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 81272960), Key Research Program from Science and Technology Department of Hunan Province, China (No. 2013WK2010), Research Program from Education Department of Hunan Province, China (No. 12C0343), Research Program from Health Department of Hunan Province, China (No. B2012-047) and the Funds for the Development of Chemical Industry of Forest Products in Htman Province Key Laboratory (No. JDLC201203).
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Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB522401), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81072566).
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