About the Authors

Tony L. H. Chu

Affiliation Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Qiunong Guan

Affiliation Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Christopher Y. C. Nguan

Affiliation Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Caigan Du

caigan@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliations Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Immunity and Infection Research Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TLHC QG CD. Performed the experiments: TLHC QG. Analyzed the data: TLHC QG CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYCN CD. Wrote the paper: TLHC CYCN CD.