About the Authors

Xuesen Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Zhongbo Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Xia Xu

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Christopher A. Blair

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Zheng Sun

Current address: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guangzhou First Municipal People's Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Jun Xie

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Michael B. Lilly

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Xiaolin Zi

xzi@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine, Orange, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ XL. Performed the experiments: XL ZL XX JX ZS. Analyzed the data: XL XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL ZL XX JX ZS. Wrote the paper: XZ XL CB ML. Obtained funding: XZ.