About the Authors

Chao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Zhang, Yong Liang Chi

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tumour Molecular Biology in Binzhou Medical University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Binzhou Medical University, YanTai, ShanDong, P.R.China

Yong Liang Chi

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Zhang, Yong Liang Chi

Affiliation Shandong China Traditional Medical Affiliated Hospital, Ji Nan, P.R.China

Ping Yu Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tumour Molecular Biology in Binzhou Medical University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Binzhou Medical University, YanTai, ShanDong, P.R.China

Ya Qi Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tumour Molecular Biology in Binzhou Medical University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Binzhou Medical University, YanTai, ShanDong, P.R.China

Yan Xia Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tumour Molecular Biology in Binzhou Medical University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Binzhou Medical University, YanTai, ShanDong, P.R.China

Jingti Deng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Ji'nan, P.R.China

Chang Jun Lv

lucky_lcj@sina.com (CL); shuyangxie@yahoo.com.cn (SX)

Affiliation The Affiliated Hospital to Binzhou Medical University, BinZhou, P.R.China

Shu Yang Xie

lucky_lcj@sina.com (CL); shuyangxie@yahoo.com.cn (SX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tumour Molecular Biology in Binzhou Medical University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Binzhou Medical University, YanTai, ShanDong, P.R.China, The Affiliated Hospital to Binzhou Medical University, BinZhou, P.R.China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SX CL. Performed the experiments: CZ YC YW YZ SX. Analyzed the data: PW JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SX PW. Wrote the paper: SX CZ.