About the Authors

Christopher G. Low

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. Low, Iris S. U. Luk

Affiliations The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Iris S. U. Luk

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. Low, Iris S. U. Luk

Affiliations The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dong Lin

Affiliations The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ladan Fazli

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kuo Yang

Affiliations The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Tianjin, China

Yong Xu

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Tianjin, China

Martin Gleave

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peter W. Gout

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yuzhuo Wang

ywang@bccrc.ca

Affiliations The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and Department of Urologic Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZW MG. Performed the experiments: CGL DL ISL. Analyzed the data: CGL DL ISL LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZW MG LF KY YX. Wrote the paper: CGL ISL PG.