About the Authors

Surajit Pathak

Affiliation ivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Wen-Jian Meng

Affiliations ivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden, epartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Hong Zhang

Affiliation chool of Medicine, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Sebastian Gnosa

Affiliation ivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Suman Kumar Nandy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Kalyani University, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

Gunnar Adell

Affiliation ivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Birgitta Holmlund

Affiliation ivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Xiao-Feng Sun

xiao-feng.sun@liu.se

Affiliation ivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP XFS. Performed the experiments: SP WJM HZ SKN. Analyzed the data: SP WJM SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GA BH XFS. Wrote the paper: SP XFS.