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"Declaration of Competing interest The authors declare no conflict of interest."

"This work is supported by the 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82130027, 81921002, 81991505, 31900971) and Cross Disciplinary Research Fund of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, 10.13039/501100008233Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (JYJC202128). Moreover, we thank the Electron Microscopy center of Shanghai Institute of Precision Medicine, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, for their technical support and assistance in the electron microscopy. Yuhui Zhu: Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Hao Gu: Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Jiawei Yang: Writing – review & editing, Validation, Methodology, Investigation. Anshuo Li: Writing – review & editing, Validation, Methodology, Investigation. Lingli Hou: Methodology, Investigation. Mingliang Zhou: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Data curation, Conceptualization. Xinquan Jiang: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization."