About the Authors

Masaaki Adachi

adachi@sapmed.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Molecular Oncology and Molecular Diagnosis, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yaohua Liu

Affiliations Division of Molecular Oncology and Molecular Diagnosis, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Neurosurgery, The First Clinical College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Kyoko Fujii

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Stuart K. Calderwood

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

Akira Nakai

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

Kohzoh Imai

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yasuhisa Shinomura

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA YL. Performed the experiments: MA YL KF. Analyzed the data: MA YL SC AN KI YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC AN. Wrote the paper: MA.