About the Authors

Jianwai Ren

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI), Shenzhen, 518057, China

George G. Chen

gchen@cuhk.edu.hk (GGC); paulai@cuhk.edu.hk (PBSL)

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI), Shenzhen, 518057, China

Yi Liu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Drugs, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Xianwei Su

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Baoguang Hu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Billy C. S. Leung

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Y. Wang

Affiliation National Cancer Centre, Division of Medical Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

Rocky L. K. Ho

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Shengli Yang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Gang Lu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

C. G. Lee

Affiliation National Cancer Centre, Division of Medical Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

Paul B. S. Lai

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR GGC PBSL. Performed the experiments: JR. Analyzed the data: JR YL YW GL CGL GGC. Wrote the paper: JR YL YW GL CGL GGC. Conducted animal work: XS BH GL. Performed qPCR and FACS: BCSL. Performed sequencing analysis: RLKH. Revised and approved the final version of this manuscript: GGC.