About the Authors

Xiaofeng Han

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Yan Xu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Yilei Yang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Jingle Xi

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Wang Tian

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Srinivas Duggineni

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Ziwei Huang

huangz@upstate.edu (ZH); anji@upstate.edu (JA)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Jing An

huangz@upstate.edu (ZH); anji@upstate.edu (JA)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH WT ZH JA. Performed the experiments: XH YX YY JX WT SD. Analyzed the data: XH WT YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZH JA. Wrote the manuscript: XH WT SD ZH JA.