About the Authors

Xue-Jun Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Jun Zhu, Zhong-Fa Yang

Zhuxj2@hotmail.com (XJZ); Alan.Rosmarin@umassmed.edu (AGR)

Affiliations Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Jiangsu Provincial Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital, Nanjing, China, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhong-Fa Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Jun Zhu, Zhong-Fa Yang

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yaoyu Chen

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Junling Wang

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan G. Rosmarin

Zhuxj2@hotmail.com (XJZ); Alan.Rosmarin@umassmed.edu (AGR)

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ ZFY. Performed the experiments: XZ ZFY YC JW. Analyzed the data: XZ ZFY AR. Wrote the paper: ZFY AR.