About the Authors

Xinli Liu

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jing Li

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Andrew Volk

Affiliation Oncology Institute, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center and Departments of Pathology and Molecular/Cellular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, United States of America

Peter Breslin

Affiliation Oncology Institute, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center and Departments of Pathology and Molecular/Cellular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, United States of America

Jiwang Zhang

Affiliation Oncology Institute, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center and Departments of Pathology and Molecular/Cellular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, United States of America

Zhou Zhang

zhouzhang@hotmail.com

Affiliation College of Life Science and Biopharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLL ZZ JWZ. Performed the experiments: XLL JZ JL AV. Analyzed the data: XLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLL. Wrote the paper: XLL JWZ PB.