About the Authors

Jing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Rou Jiang

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Rou Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Rou Jiang

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Wen-Sheng Liu

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Qing Liu

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Epidemiology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Miao Xu

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Qi-Sheng Feng

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Li-Zhen Chen

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jin-Xin Bei

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Ming-Yuan Chen

chmingy@mail.sysu.edu.cn (MYC); zengyix@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YXZ)

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yi-Xin Zeng

chmingy@mail.sysu.edu.cn (MYC); zengyix@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YXZ)

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MYC YXZ. Performed the experiments: JL RJ WSL QL MX QSF LZC. Analyzed the data: JL RJ WSL QL MYC JXB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MX QSF LZC. Wrote the paper: JL RJ MYC JXB.