About the Authors

Xuelian Xu

Affiliations Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, The State Engineering Laboratory of AIDS Vaccine, College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China

Chengzhi Xie

Affiliations Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, The State Engineering Laboratory of AIDS Vaccine, College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China

Holly Edwards

Affiliations Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Hui Zhou

Affiliation The State Engineering Laboratory of AIDS Vaccine, College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China

Steven A. Buck

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Yubin Ge

gey@karmanos.org

Affiliations Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, The State Engineering Laboratory of AIDS Vaccine, College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China, Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX CX YG. Performed the experiments: XX CX HE SB. Analyzed the data: XX CX HE HZ SB YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ SB. Wrote the manuscript: XX YG.