About the Authors

Yunbao Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yunbao Pan, Fuling Zhou

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathophysiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Fuling Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yunbao Pan, Fuling Zhou

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Clinical Hematology, the Affiliated No. 2 Hospital, Xi’an JiaoTong University, Xi’an, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China

Ronghua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Francois X. Claret

fxclaret@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Experimental Therapeutic Academic Program and Cancer Biology Program, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Co-author Francois X. Claret is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YP FXC. Performed the experiments: YP FZ RZ. Analyzed the data: YP. Wrote the paper: YP FXC.