About the Authors

Long Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Wang, Jie Fan

Affiliation Cancer Therapy & Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jie Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Wang, Jie Fan

Affiliation Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Siqi Chen

Affiliation Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Center for Cell Biotherapy of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Tyler J. Curiel

Affiliation Cancer Therapy & Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Bin Zhang

bin.zhang@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Cancer Therapy & Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Center for Cell Biotherapy of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC YZ BZ. Performed the experiments: LW JF SC. Analyzed the data: TC YZ BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC YZ BZ. Wrote the paper: TC YZ BZ.