About the Authors

Xiao-Lin Li

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Gene Therapy Program, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Yong-Yu Liu

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Louisiana, Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

David Knight

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Gene Therapy Program, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Yoshinobu Odaka

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Gene Therapy Program, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

J. Michael Mathis

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Gene Therapy Program, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Runhua Shi

Affiliation Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Jonathan Glass

Affiliation Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Qian-Jin Zhang

qzhang@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Gene Therapy Program, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Qian-Jin Zhang holds shares from TAPIMMUNE INC. Xiao-Lin Li was partially supported her salary by TAPImmune Inc through university of British Columbia, Canada four year ago when she worked in university of British Columbia, Canada. Current work has no support from this company.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QJZ. Performed the experiments: XLL YYL YO QJZ. Analyzed the data: XLL YYL DK JMM RS JG QJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMM JG QJZ. Wrote the paper: DK JG QJZ.