About the Authors

De-Hua Yu

yu@itherx.com (DHY); hqxl@yahoo.com (QXL)

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

James Macdonald

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Guohong Liu

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Amy S. Lee

Affiliations iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mimi Ly

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Timothy Davis

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Ning Ke

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Demin Zhou

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Flossie Wong-Staal

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Qi-Xiang Li

yu@itherx.com (DHY); hqxl@yahoo.com (QXL)

Affiliation iTherX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHY DZ FWS LQX. Performed the experiments: DHY JM GL ML TD NK. Analyzed the data: DHY ASL FWS LQX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASL DZ. Wrote the paper: DHY LQX.