About the Authors

Li Z. Luo

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Sailesh Gopalakrishna-Pillai

Contributed equally to this work with: Sailesh Gopalakrishna-Pillai, Stephanie L. Nay

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Stephanie L. Nay

Contributed equally to this work with: Sailesh Gopalakrishna-Pillai, Stephanie L. Nay

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Sang-Won Park

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Steven E. Bates

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xianmin Zeng

Affiliation North Bay CIRM Shared Research Laboratory for Stem Cells and Aging, Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, United States of America

Linda E. Iverson

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Timothy R. O'Connor

toconnor@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZL SP XZ TRO. Performed the experiments: LZL SLN SGP SEB. Analyzed the data: LZL SLN SP TRO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGP SP SEB XZ LEI TRO. Wrote the paper: LZL SLN SGP SEB XZ LEI TRO. Intellectual Input: SGP.