About the Authors

Li Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rulong Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Yin Ye

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xin-An Pu

Affiliation Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xingluo Liu

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Wenrui Duan

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jing Wen

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jason Zimmerer

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Yan Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Larry C. Lasky

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Nyla A. Heerema

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Danilo Perrotti

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Keiko Ozato

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Satomi Kuramochi-Miyagawa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Toru Nakano

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Allen J. Yates

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

William E. Carson III

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Haifan Lin

Affiliation Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sanford H. Barsky

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jian-Xin Gao

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Jian-Xin.Gao@osumc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG. Performed the experiments: YL HL JG LC YY XP JW YW NH DP. Analyzed the data: JG LC RS NH DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL JG XL WD LL KO SK TN SB JZ AY WC. Wrote the paper: JG. Other: Discussed experiments and reviewed manuscript: HL. Adoptive transfer, RNAi, RT-PCR, DNA PCR: LC. Reviewed all the histopathologcial and immunohistotological slides: RS. Constructed lentiviral vectors: YY. Generated precancerous stem cell chimera mice: XP. CFC assay: JW. Karyotyping: NH. The mentor of Dr. Yin Ye: SB.