About the Authors

Wei Wang

gianty2005@yahoo.com (WW); lz8506@gmail.com (LZ)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Mei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei Zhang, Weimin Sun

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Weimin Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei Zhang, Weimin Sun

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Second Military Medical College, Shanghai, China

Shanmin Yang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ying Su

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Hengshan Zhang

Affiliation Central Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Chaomei Liu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Xinfeng Li

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Ling Lin

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Sunghee Kim

Affiliation BioPowerTech, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Paul Okunieff

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Zhenhuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Lurong Zhang

gianty2005@yahoo.com (WW); lz8506@gmail.com (LZ)

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Central Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: co-author Sunghee Kim is employed by BioPowerTech. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW LZ. Performed the experiments: MZ WS SY YS HZ CL ZZ. Analyzed the data: WS XL LL ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK. Wrote the paper: WW PO LZ