About the Authors

Lei Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Jia Zhu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jia Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Yang, Jia Zhu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Hua Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Qichang Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nantong first people's hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jing Cai

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Qiuhong Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Junya Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Inflammation and Molecular Drug Target, Medical College of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China

Mengting Shao

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Inflammation and Molecular Drug Target, Medical College of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China

Jinzhang Xiao

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jie Cao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nantong first people's hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Xiaodan Gu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Inflammation and Molecular Drug Target, Medical College of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China

Shusen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Inflammation and Molecular Drug Target, Medical College of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China

Yingying Wang

wyy0418@ntu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Inflammation and Molecular Drug Target, Medical College of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW LY Jia Zhu. Performed the experiments: Jia Zhu Junya Zhu MS JX Jie Cao. Analyzed the data: HH QY Jing Cai QW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH QY Jing Cai QW. Wrote the paper: XG SZ Jia Zhu.