About the Authors

Zixuan Chen

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Yinan Wang

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Wen Liu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Guannan Zhao

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China

Suechin Lee

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Andrea Balogh

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Yanan Zou

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, P. R. China

Yuqi Guo

Affiliation The Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China

Zhan Zhang

Affiliation The Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China

Weiwang Gu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Chengyao Li

jyue@uthsc.edu (JY); chengyaoli@hotmail.com (CL)

Affiliation Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Gabor Tigyi

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Junming Yue

jyue@uthsc.edu (JY); chengyaoli@hotmail.com (CL)

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

Junming Yue is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria. All authors have no competing interest to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY GT. Performed the experiments: ZC YW WL GZ SL AB YZ. Analyzed the data: ZC JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG ZZ WG CL GT. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JY GT.