About the Authors

Pengyuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Haris Vikis

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yan Lu

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Daolong Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ming You

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: youm@wudosis.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MY PL. Performed the experiments: PL HV. Analyzed the data: PL DW YL. Wrote the paper: PL. Other: Revise the manuscript HV.