Acknowledgement
We thank Professor Liu, Pingsheng (State Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing the LIU1 strain and Professor Xiaochen Wang (National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing qxIs750. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070757 to J.L.), the Industrial Innovation Funds for Linquan County-Hefei University of Technology (JZ2018QTXM0553 to J.L.), and the University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province (GXXT-2019-026 to J.L.). Some C. elegans strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by the NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440).
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