About the Authors

Jeffrey D. Allen

Affiliation Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yang Xie

Affiliations Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Min Chen

Affiliations Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Luc Girard

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Guanghua Xiao

Guanghua.Xiao@UTSouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDA YX GX. Performed the experiments: JDA YX GX. Analyzed the data: YX MC LG GX. Wrote the paper: JDA YX MC LG GX.