About the Authors

Li-sheng Zheng

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Fang Wang

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yu-hong Li

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Li-ming Chen

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yong-ju Liang

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Chun-ling Dai

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yan-yan Yan

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Li-yang Tao

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yan-jun Mi

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

An-kui Yang

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Kenneth Kin Wah To

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Li-wu Fu

Fulw@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation Research Department, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AkY KKWT LwF. Performed the experiments: LsZ FW YhL XZ LmC YjL ClD. Analyzed the data: LsZ FW YyY LyT YjM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YhL AkY KKWT LwF. Wrote the paper: LsZ LwF.