About the Authors

Chaofeng Yang

Affiliation Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chengliu Jin

Affiliation Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaokun Li

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Fen Wang

Affiliation Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wallace L. McKeehan

Affiliations Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, IBT Proteomics and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yongde Luo

yluo@ibt.tamhsc.edu

Affiliations Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, IBT Proteomics and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL CY WLM. Performed the experiments: CY YL. Analyzed the data: CY YL . Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WLM XL FW. Wrote the paper: YL CY. Care and maintenance of mouse lines: CJ.