About the Authors

Jie Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Xu, Xing Wu, Wei-hua Zhou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Xing Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Xu, Xing Wu, Wei-hua Zhou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Hematology, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei-hua Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Xu, Xing Wu, Wei-hua Zhou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

An-wen Liu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Jian-bing Wu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Jin-yun Deng

Affiliation Department of the Third Internal Medicine, Jiangxi Province Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, China

Cai-feng Yue

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Shao-bing Yang

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jing Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zhong-yu Yuan

liuq9@mail.sysu.edu.cn (ZY); yuanzhy@sysucc.org.cn (ZYY)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Quentin Liu

liuq9@mail.sysu.edu.cn (ZY); yuanzhy@sysucc.org.cn (ZYY)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Hematology, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JX ZYY QL. Performed the experiments: XW WHZ. Analyzed the data: JX CFY AWL JBW JYD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBY JW. Wrote the paper: QL.