About the Authors

Wenluo Cao

Affiliations AntiCancer Inc., San Diego, CA, 92111, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America, Department of Anatomy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

Lingna Li

Affiliation AntiCancer Inc., San Diego, CA, 92111, United States of America

Benjamin Tran

Affiliation AntiCancer Inc., San Diego, CA, 92111, United States of America

Satoshi Kajiura

Affiliations AntiCancer Inc., San Diego, CA, 92111, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University, Sagimahara, 228–8555, Japan

Yasuyuki Amoh

all@anticancer.com (RMH); liu_fang403@163.com (FL); yasuyukiamoh@yahoo.co.jp (YA)

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University, Sagimahara, 228–8555, Japan

Fang Liu

all@anticancer.com (RMH); liu_fang403@163.com (FL); yasuyukiamoh@yahoo.co.jp (YA)

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

Robert M. Hoffman

all@anticancer.com (RMH); liu_fang403@163.com (FL); yasuyukiamoh@yahoo.co.jp (YA)

Affiliations AntiCancer Inc., San Diego, CA, 92111, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America

Competing Interests

Lingna Li is an employee of AntiCancer Inc. Wenluo Cao, Satoshi Kajiura and Robert M. Hoffman are unpaid affiliates of AntiCancer Inc. Benjamin Tran, Yasuyuki Amoh and Fang Liu were former affiliates of AntiCancer Inc. Robert M. Hoffman is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board Member. AntiCancer Inc. markets animal models of cancer. There are no other competing interests. 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. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC RMH. Performed the experiments: WC LL. Analyzed the data: WC LL BT SK YA FL RMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMH. Wrote the paper: WC RMH.