About the Authors

Linh M. Tran

Contributed equally to this work with: Linh M. Tran, Chun-Ju Chang

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chun-Ju Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Linh M. Tran, Chun-Ju Chang

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Seema Plaisier

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shumin Wu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Julie Dang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paul S. Mischel

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

James C. Liao

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Thomas G. Graeber

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hong Wu

hwu@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMT C-JC JCL TGG HW. Performed the experiments: C-JC SW JD. Analyzed the data: LMT C-JC PSM TGG HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP PSM. Wrote the paper: LMT C-JC TGG HW.