About the Authors

Shengjie Guo

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Feng Sun

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zhiyong Guo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alan Alfano

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hegang Chen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Clara E. Magyar

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jiaoti Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Toby C. Chai

Affiliation Division of Urology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shaopeng Qiu

yqiu@som.umaryland.edu (YQ); urology@vip.163.com (SQ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yun Qiu

yqiu@som.umaryland.edu (YQ); urology@vip.163.com (SQ)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and The Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG FS YQ. Performed the experiments: SG ZG WL AA. Analyzed the data: CEM JH HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCC SQ. Wrote the paper: SG CEM JH YQ.