About the Authors

Lin Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Lv, Ke Pan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Ke Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Lv, Ke Pan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xiao-dong Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Thoracic Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Ke-lin She

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Thoracic Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jing-jing Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Wei Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Ju-gao Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yi-bin Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jing-ping Yun

yunjp@mail.sysu.edu.cn (J-pY); xiajch@mail.sysu.edu.cn (J-cX)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jian-chuan Xia

yunjp@mail.sysu.edu.cn (J-pY); xiajch@mail.sysu.edu.cn (J-cX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China and Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-cX KP. Performed the experiments: LL KP. Analyzed the data: LL J-jZ WW J-gC J-pY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X-dL K-lS J-pY Y-bC WW. Wrote the paper: LL KP J-cX.