About the Authors

Heloisa P. Soares

Contributed equally to this work with: Heloisa P. Soares, Yang Ni

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine; CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yang Ni

Contributed equally to this work with: Heloisa P. Soares, Yang Ni

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine; CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Krisztina Kisfalvi

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine; CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

James Sinnett-Smith

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine; CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Enrique Rozengurt

erozengurt@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine; CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER HPS YN JSS KK. Performed the experiments: HPS YN JSS KK. Analyzed the data: ER HPS YN JSS KK. Wrote the paper: ER HPS JSS.