About the Authors

Atsushi Shiozaki

Affiliation Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Grace Shen-Tu

Affiliation Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Xiaohui Bai

Affiliation Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daisuke Iitaka

Affiliation Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Valentina De Falco

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR ‘G. Salvatore’, Naples, Italy

Massimo Santoro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR ‘G. Salvatore’, Naples, Italy

Shaf Keshavjee

Affiliations Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mingyao Liu

mingyao.liu@utoronto.ca

Affiliations Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS ML. Performed the experiments: AS XHB DI. Analyzed the data: AS GS ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS VD ML SK. Wrote the paper: AS GS ML.