About the Authors

Edith H. Y. Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Edith H. Y. Tong, Jin-Jun Guo

Affiliations Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jin-Jun Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Edith H. Y. Tong, Jin-Jun Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology on Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Viral Hepatitis, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chong Qing, China

Song-Xiao Xu

Affiliations Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Keri Mak

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Sookja K. Chung

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Stephen S. M. Chung

Affiliation Department of Physiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ali-Long Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology on Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Viral Hepatitis, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chong Qing, China

Ben C. B. Ko

benko@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK. Performed the experiments: EHYT JJG SXX KM. Analyzed the data: EHYT JJG SXX BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKC SSMC ALH. Wrote the paper: BK.