About the Authors

Xu Wang

Affiliations Cancer and Stem Cell Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China, Stanford University Medical School, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Ji-Fan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Fan Hu, Wei Li

jdyylw@163.com (WL); Jifan@stanford.edu (JFH)

Affiliations Cancer and Stem Cell Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China, Stanford University Medical School, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Yehui Tan

Affiliation Cancer and Stem Cell Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China

Jiuwei Cui

Affiliation Cancer and Stem Cell Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China

Guanjun Wang

Affiliation Cancer and Stem Cell Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China

Randall J. Mrsny

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, England

Wei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Fan Hu, Wei Li

jdyylw@163.com (WL); Jifan@stanford.edu (JFH)

Affiliation Cancer and Stem Cell Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW JFH. Performed the experiments: XW. Analyzed the data: XW YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC WL GW RJM. Wrote the paper: XW JFH.