About the Authors

Peizhen Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Peizhen Hu, Gina C.-Y. Chu

Affiliations Uro-Oncology Research Program, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military University, Xi'an, China

Gina C.-Y. Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Peizhen Hu, Gina C.-Y. Chu

Affiliation Uro-Oncology Research Program, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Guodong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Hua Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Daniel Luthringer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gail Prins

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Fouad Habib

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Yuzhuo Wang

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ruoxiang Wang

Affiliation Uro-Oncology Research Program, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Leland W. K. Chung

Affiliation Uro-Oncology Research Program, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Haiyen E. Zhau

Haiyen.zhau@cshs.org

Affiliation Uro-Oncology Research Program, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 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: HEZ LWKC GCYC PH GZ. Performed the experiments: PH GCYC GZ HEZ. Analyzed the data: RW PH GCYC HEZ GZ LWKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY DL GP FH YW. Wrote the paper: HEZ LWKC RW GCYC PH.