About the Authors

Darong Yang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, Research Center of Cancer Prevention and Treatment of Hunan University and Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Translational Medicine Research Center of Liver Cancer, Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital (Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xiangya Medical School of Central South University), Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Binbin Xue

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Xiaoyan Yu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Nianli Liu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, Research Center of Cancer Prevention and Treatment of Hunan University and Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Translational Medicine Research Center of Liver Cancer, Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital (Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xiangya Medical School of Central South University), Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Yimin Gao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Chen Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Haizhen Zhu

zhuhaizhen69@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, Research Center of Cancer Prevention and Treatment of Hunan University and Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Translational Medicine Research Center of Liver Cancer, Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital (Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xiangya Medical School of Central South University), Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ. Performed the experiments: DY BX XW XY NL YG. Analyzed the data: HZ DY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL. Wrote the paper: HZ.