About the Authors

Ling Chen

Affiliations Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Pathology, Tianjin Central Hospital of Gynecology Obstetrics, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Tomonari Kasai

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Yueguang Li

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Tianjin 4th Centre Hospital, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Yuh Sugii

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Guoliang Jin

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Masashi Okada

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Arun Vaidyanath

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Akifumi Mizutani

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Ayano Satoh

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Division, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Takayuki Kudoh

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Mary J. C. Hendrix

Affiliation Children's Memorial Research Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David S. Salomon

Affiliation Laboratory of Mammary Biology and Tumorigenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Li Fu

mseno@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp (MS); fulijyb@hotmail.com (LF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Research, Department of Breast Cancer Pathology and Research Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Masaharu Seno

mseno@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp (MS); fulijyb@hotmail.com (LF)

Affiliation Department of Medical and Bioengineering Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC MS LF. Performed the experiments: LC T. Kasai YL YS GJ. Analyzed the data: LC YS AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO AV AS T. Kudoh. Wrote the paper: LC. Data discussion, manuscript revision: MJCH DSS.