About the Authors

Haixia Niu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xue Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ralph A. Gruppo

Affiliation Hematology-Oncology Department, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ding Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yanhua Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Kemin Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Weiran Chai

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yueping Sun

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhongren Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Ministry of Education, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai, China

T. Kent Gartner

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Junling Liu

liujl@shsmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN RAG TKG JL. Performed the experiments: HN XC RAG DL YW LZ KW WC YS. Analyzed the data: HN RAG TKG JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAG TKG ZD JL. Wrote the paper: HN RAG TKG JL.