About the Authors

Boying Dun

Affiliations Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Ashok Sharma

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Yong Teng

Affiliation Cancer Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Haitao Liu

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Sharad Purohit

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Heng Xu

Affiliations Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Lingwen Zeng

Affiliation Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Jin-Xiong She

jshe@gru.edu

Affiliations Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Cancer Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD JXS LZ. Performed the experiments: BD YT HL SP HX. Analyzed the data: AS. Wrote the manuscript: BD JXS.