About the Authors

Yang Wang

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine and Department of Hepatology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

David R McGivern

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Liang Cheng

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Guangming Li

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stanley M Lemon

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Junqi Niu

lishan_su@med.unc.edu (LS); reszka@email.unc.edu (NJRB); junqiniu@aliyun.com (JN)

Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine and Department of Hepatology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Lishan Su

lishan_su@med.unc.edu (LS); reszka@email.unc.edu (NJRB); junqiniu@aliyun.com (JN)

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Natalia J Reszka-Blanco

lishan_su@med.unc.edu (LS); reszka@email.unc.edu (NJRB); junqiniu@aliyun.com (JN)

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS NJRB. Performed the experiments: YW NJRB DRM. Analyzed the data: YW NJRB DRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRM SML LC GL. Wrote the paper: NJRB DRM LS. Discussed the data: LS SML JN NJRB DRM.