About the Authors

Zhili Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhili Liu, Ming Sun, Kaihua Lu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Ming Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhili Liu, Ming Sun, Kaihua Lu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Kaihua Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhili Liu, Ming Sun, Kaihua Lu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Jing Liu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Meiling Zhang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Weiqin Wu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Wei De

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Zhaoxia Wang

zhaoxiawang88@163.com (ZXW); wangrui1977218@163.com (RW)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Rui Wang

zhaoxiawang88@163.com (ZXW); wangrui1977218@163.com (RW)

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZXW RW. Performed the experiments: ZLL MS KHL. Analyzed the data: JL WD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLZ WQ. Wrote the manuscript: ZLL ZXW RW.