About the Authors

Wei M. Liu

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Feng Zhang

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Simon Moshiach

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Bin Zhou

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Chao Huang

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Kamalakkannan Srinivasan

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Seema Khurana

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Yi Zheng

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jill M. Lahti

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Xin A. Zhang

xin-zhang-1@ouhsc.edu

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ. Performed the experiments: WL FZ SM BZ KS. Analyzed the data: WL FZ CH XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS YZ JL SK. Wrote the paper: WL XZ.