About the Authors

Song Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Wu, Zhaojie Lv

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Department of Urology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhaojie Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Wu, Zhaojie Lv

Affiliations Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, First Clinical Medical College, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Yong Wang

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Liang Sun

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Zhimao Jiang

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Congjie Xu

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Jun Zhao

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Xiaojuan Sun

Affiliation Institute of Urology, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Xianxin Li

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Lijun Hu

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Aifa Tang

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Yaoting Gui

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Fangjian Zhou

Affiliation Department of Urology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhiming Cai

rfwang888@hotmail.com (RfW); caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZmC)

Affiliation Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Rongfu Wang

rfwang888@hotmail.com (RfW); caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZmC)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZmC RfW SW. Performed the experiments: YW LS ZmJ CjX SW. Analyzed the data: LjH JZ XjS XxL SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AfT YtG FjZ ZjL SW. Wrote the paper: SW ZjL.