About the Authors

Hanbing An

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Barry Baker Laboratory for Head and Neck Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xinyuan Lu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Barry Baker Laboratory for Head and Neck Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Dan Liu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Barry Baker Laboratory for Head and Neck Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Wendell G. Yarbrough

wendell.yarbrough@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Barry Baker Laboratory for Head and Neck Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA WGY. Performed the experiments: HA DL XL. Analyzed the data: HA DL XL WGY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WGY. Wrote the paper: HA WGY.