About the Authors

Bing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Wang, Shiyun Ling

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Shiyun Ling

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Wang, Shiyun Ling

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Weei-Chin Lin

weeichil@bcm.edu

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WCL. Performed the experiments: BW SL. Analyzed the data: BW SL WCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCL. Wrote the paper: BW SL WCL. Designed the experiments: BW SL.