About the Authors

Hong Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Yan, Xin Chen, Qiuping Zhang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America, Wuhan University School of Public Health, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Yan, Xin Chen, Qiuping Zhang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America, Program in Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Qiuping Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Yan, Xin Chen, Qiuping Zhang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Wuhan University School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jichao Qin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Hangwen Li

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Can Liu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Tammy Calhoun-Davis

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Luis Della Coletta

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Jim Klostergaard

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Izabela Fokt

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stanislaw Skora

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Waldemar Priebe

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yongyi Bi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Dean G. Tang

dtang@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America, Program in Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Centers for Cancer Epigenetics, Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, RNA Interference and Non-coding RNAs, and Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY XC QZ JK IF SS WP YB DGT. Performed the experiments: HY XC QZ JQ HL CL TC-D LDC. Analyzed the data: HY XC QZ JQ HL CL TC-D LDC JK DGT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK IF SS WP. Wrote the paper: HY XC QZ DGT.