About the Authors

WenQing Cao

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

ZhiFan Ma

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Mark M. Rasenick

Affiliations Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

ShuYan Yeh

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Urology, George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

JiangZhou Yu

jiangzhou_yu@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZY WQC. Performed the experiments: ZFM JZY. Analyzed the data: WQC JZY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYS JZY WQC. Wrote the paper: WQC JZY MMR.