About the Authors

Ming-Szu Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Szu Hung, Yu-Ching Lin

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yu-Ching Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Szu Hung, Yu-Ching Lin

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Jian-Hua Mao

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Il-Jin Kim

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Zhidong Xu

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cheng-Ta Yang

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

David M. Jablons

jablonsd@surgery.ucsf.edu (DMJ); Liang.You@ucsfmedctr.org (LY)

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Liang You

jablonsd@surgery.ucsf.edu (DMJ); Liang.You@ucsfmedctr.org (LY)

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSH YCL JHM DJ LY. Performed the experiments: MSH YCL IJK. Analyzed the data: MSH JHM ZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHM ZX. Wrote the paper: MSH IJK DJ LY. Reviewed and revised the manuscript: CTY. Gave important directions to the study and revised the manuscript: DJ.