About the Authors

Hui Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Peng, Jing Qi

Current address: Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Jing Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Peng, Jing Qi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Zizheng Dong

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Jian-Ting Zhang

jianzhan@iupui.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, IU Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP JQ ZD JTZ. Performed the experiments: HP JQ ZD. Analyzed the data: HP JQ ZD JTZ. Wrote the paper: HP JQ ZD JTZ.