About the Authors

Shaoyong Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoyong Lu, Wenkang Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wenkang Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoyong Lu, Wenkang Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qi Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qiancheng Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Shuai Li

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ruth Nussinov

ruthnu@helix.nih.gov (RN); jian.zhang@sjtu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliations Cancer and Inflammation Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Jian Zhang

ruthnu@helix.nih.gov (RN); jian.zhang@sjtu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliations Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Inflammation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RN JZ. Performed the experiments: SLu WH QW JZ. Analyzed the data: SLu QS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLi RN JZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SLu RN JZ.