About the Authors

Qian Bi

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Bi, Shanhong Tang, Lin Xia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Shanhong Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Bi, Shanhong Tang, Lin Xia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Lin Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Bi, Shanhong Tang, Lin Xia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Rui Du

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Rui Fan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Liucun Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Jiang Jin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Shuhui Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Zheng Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Guanghui Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Yongzhan Nie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Kaichun Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Jie Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China, Department of Digestive Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yongquan Shi

dingjie@fmmu.edu.cn (JD); shiyquan@fmmu.edu.cn (YS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Jie Ding

dingjie@fmmu.edu.cn (JD); shiyquan@fmmu.edu.cn (YS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Daiming Fan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QB ST RD SL YN JL YS JD DF. Performed the experiments: QB ST LX RD RF LG JJ GX KW. Analyzed the data: LX LG SL YN KW JL YS JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZC. Wrote the paper: QB ST YS JD.