About the Authors

Wenhan Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenhan Zhu, Lili Tao

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lili Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenhan Zhu, Lili Tao

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Huadong Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Marsha L. Quick

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Johanna A. Joyce

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jie-Ming Qu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Huadong Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Zhao-Qing Luo

luoz@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ LT ZQL. Performed the experiments: WZ LT. Analyzed the data: WZ LT ZQL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLQ JAJ JMQ. Wrote the paper: WZ ZQL.