About the Authors

Yan Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Cheng, Huaijun Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Penn State Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Huaijun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Cheng, Huaijun Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Penn State Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xingcong Ren

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Penn State Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tingkuang Niu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and The Penn State Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William N. Hait

Affiliation OrthoBiotech Research and Development, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Jinming Yang

jyang2@hmc.psu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and The Penn State Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC HL WNH JMY. Performed the experiments: YC HL XR TN. Analyzed the data: YC HL JMY. Wrote the paper: YC HL JMY.