About the Authors

Che-Ming Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Che-Ming Liu, Chia-Ling Hsieh

Affiliation Ph.D. Program for Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, China Medical University and Academia Sinica, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Chia-Ling Hsieh

Contributed equally to this work with: Che-Ming Liu, Chia-Ling Hsieh

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Center for Molecular Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Yun-Chi He

Affiliation Graduate Institutes of Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Sen-Jei Lo

Affiliation Graduate Institutes of Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Ji-An Liang

Affiliation Division of Radiation Oncology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Teng-Fu Hsieh

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Division of Urology, Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Taichung Branch, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC

Sajni Josson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Leland W. K. Chung

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mien-Chie Hung

Affiliations Graduate Institutes of Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Center for Molecular Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shian-Ying Sung

ssung@mail.cmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Ph.D. Program for Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, China Medical University and Academia Sinica, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Graduate Institutes of Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, Center for Molecular Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SYS. Performed the experiments: CML YCH SJL TFH SJ SYS. Analyzed the data: CLH SYS MCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCH JAL SYS LWKC. Wrote the paper: SYS.