About the Authors

Mei Li

Affiliations Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiaoying Fu

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gui Ma

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Xiaodong Sun

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xueyuan Dong

dxueyua@emory.edu (XD) (XD); j.dong@emory.edu (JTD) (JD)

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Tamas Nagy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Changsheng Xing

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jie Li

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jin-Tang Dong

dxueyua@emory.edu (XD) (XD); j.dong@emory.edu (JTD) (JD)

Affiliations Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTD ML. Performed the experiments: ML XF GM CX JL. Analyzed the data: ML XS XD TN JTD. Wrote the paper: ML JTD.