We thank Dr. Joseph Kozocas from SRI international, California, USA for providing (R,/T)-FEN and (&R1-MNF for the analysis and Dr. Wei Liang and his team from WuXi AppTec, Shanghai, China for technical assistance in the cAMP assay. This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China under the National Key Research and Development Program of China [grant number 2018YFA0507603 (to R-PX)];the National Science and Technology Major Project [grant numbers 2013ZX09507001-001002 (to AY-HW), 2013ZX09301305-001 (to LP), 2013ZX09508104 (to R-PX), 2018ZX09739009 (to M-SC)];the National Basic Research Program [grant number 2012CB518000 (to R-PX)];the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 81673355 (to AY-HW), 81872752 (to MSC), 31521062, 81630008, 81790621 (to R-PX)];Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission [grant number Z171100000417006 (to R-PX)], and the intramural research program of the NIH, USA (to IWW).
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Acknowledgements Project was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (NKBRP) of People's Republic of China (No 2006CB503806) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30770939 and 30821001). The authors would like to thank Dr Laura HERATY for language revision, and Dr Pei ZHANG for performing the confocal laser scanning microscope.
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