About the Authors

Hisae Nakamura

Affiliations Experimental Therapeutics, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yuwei Wang

Affiliation Experimental Therapeutics, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Takeshi Kurita

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hans Adomat

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gerald R. Cunha

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yuzhuo Wang

ywang@bccrc.ca

Affiliations Experimental Therapeutics, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN TK YZW. Performed the experiments: HN YUW TK HA. Analyzed the data: HN YUW TK YZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK HA YZW. Wrote the paper: HN HA GRC.