About the Authors

Han Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Han Han, Xiaojing Yang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy,University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Departments of Urology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern, California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiaojing Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Han Han, Xiaojing Yang

Affiliation Departments of Urology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern, California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kurinji Pandiyan

Affiliations Departments of Urology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern, California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gangning Liang

gliang@usc.edu

Affiliation Departments of Urology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern, California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL HH XY KP. Performed the experiments: HH XY. Analyzed the data: XY. Wrote the paper: HH KP.