About the Authors

Kai Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiang, Yajuan Liu, Junkai Fan

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Yajuan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiang, Yajuan Liu, Junkai Fan

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Junkai Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Jiang, Yajuan Liu, Junkai Fan

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jie Zhang

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Xiang-An Li

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

B. Mark Evers

Affiliations Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Haining Zhu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jianhang Jia

Jianhang.jia@uky.edu

Affiliations Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ. Performed the experiments: KJ YL JF JZ XAL HZ. Analyzed the data: KJ HZ JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BME. Wrote the paper: JJ.