About the Authors

Darong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Darong Yang, Nianli Liu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Biology of Hunan University, Changsha, China, State Key Laboratory of Chem/Biosensesing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Nianli Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Darong Yang, Nianli Liu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Biology of Hunan University, Changsha, China, State Key Laboratory of Chem/Biosensesing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Chaohui Zuo

Affiliation Research Center of Cancer Prevention and Treatment of Hunan University and Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Changsha, China

Shoahua Lei

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Biology of Hunan University, Changsha, China, State Key Laboratory of Chem/Biosensesing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Xinjiao Wu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Biology of Hunan University, Changsha, China, State Key Laboratory of Chem/Biosensesing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Fei Zhou

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Biology of Hunan University, Changsha, China, State Key Laboratory of Chem/Biosensesing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, 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, College of Biology of Hunan University, Changsha, China, State Key Laboratory of Chem/Biosensesing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, China, Research Center of Cancer Prevention and Treatment of Hunan University and Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ CL. Performed the experiments: DY NL CZ SL XW FZ. Analyzed the data: HZ DY SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL. Wrote the paper: HZ. Obtained the permission for use of cell line: CL.