About the Authors

Suping Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Suping Zhang, Liguang Chen

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Liguang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Suping Zhang, Liguang Chen

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bing Cui

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Han-Yu Chuang

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jianqiang Yu

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jessica Wang-Rodriguez

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Li Tang

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

George Chen

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Grzegorz W. Basak

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas J. Kipps

tkipps@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ LC TJK. Performed the experiments: SZ LC GC BC GWB JY LT. Analyzed the data: HYC SZ LC BC GWB TJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWR. Wrote the paper: SZ TJK LC. Helped evaluate the pathology of human samples: JWR.