About the Authors

Jiangnan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiangnan Wang, Rong Ma

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Rong Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiangnan Wang, Rong Ma

Affiliation Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Ashok Sharma

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Mingfang He

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Jing Xue

Affiliations Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Zhengjiang Jintai Biosciences, Zhengjiang, Jiangsu Province, China

Jianzhong Wu

Affiliation Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Boying Dun

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Gang Li

Affiliations Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiaoxiao Wang

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Minghua Ji

Affiliations Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Jin-Xiong She

jshe@hotmail.com (JXS); jschtjh@126.com (JT)

Affiliations Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Jinhai Tang

jshe@hotmail.com (JXS); jschtjh@126.com (JT)

Affiliation Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

Jing Xue is an employee of Zhengjiang Jintai Biosciences, who performed this study as an employee of Nanjing University of Technology. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Wang AS JXS JT. Performed the experiments: J. Wang RM MH JX J. Wu BD GL MJ. Analyzed the data: AS XW JXS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JXS JT. Wrote the paper: J. Wang AS JXS JT.