About the Authors

Zhiling Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiling Zhang, Chunping Yu

Affiliations Department of Urology Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Chunping Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiling Zhang, Chunping Yu

Affiliations Department of Urology Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Nephrology, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Liliya Velet

Affiliation Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, United States of America

Yonghong Li

Affiliations Department of Urology Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Lijuan Jiang

Affiliations Department of Urology Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Fangjian Zhou

zhoufj@sysucc.org.cn

Affiliations Department of Urology Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZLZ CPY FJZ. Performed the experiments: ZLZ CPY YHL. Analyzed the data: ZLZ CPY LJJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZLZ CPY YHL LJJ. Wrote the paper: ZLZ CPY LV FJZ.