About the Authors

Junling Zhuang

zhuangjunling@hotmail.com (JZ); xiangli.yang@vanderbilt.edu (XY)

Affiliations Department of Medicine & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Hematology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Jianghong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Seint T. Lwin

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

James R. Edwards

Affiliation Department of Medicine & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Claire M. Edwards

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gregory R. Mundy

Affiliations Department of Medicine & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xiangli Yang

zhuangjunling@hotmail.com (JZ); xiangli.yang@vanderbilt.edu (XY)

Affiliation Department of Medicine & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GRM J. Zhuang. Performed the experiments: J. Zhuang J. Zhang JRE STL CME. Analyzed the data: J. Zhuang GRM XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRM. Wrote the paper: J. Zhuang XY.