About the Authors

Xiao-Peng Xiong

Affiliations Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program; Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America, Development, Aging and Regeneration Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America

Krishna Kurthkoti

Affiliations Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program; Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America, Development, Aging and Regeneration Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America

Kung-Yen Chang

Affiliations Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program; Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, California, United States of America

Jian-Liang Li

Affiliation Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Xingjie Ren

Affiliation Gene Regulatory Laboratory, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Jian-Quan Ni

Affiliation Gene Regulatory Laboratory, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Tariq M. Rana

Affiliations Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program; Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, California, United States of America

Rui Zhou

rzhou@sanfordburnham.org

Affiliations Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program; Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America, Development, Aging and Regeneration Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XPX KK RZ. Data curation: XPX KK KYC JLL XR RZ. Formal analysis: XPX KK KYC JLL RZ. Funding acquisition: RZ TMR. Investigation: XPX KK KYC JLL XR JQN TMR RZ. Methodology: XPX KK RZ. Project administration: RZ TMR. Resources: XPX KK KYC JLL XR JQN TMR RZ. Software: KYC JLL. Supervision: RZ TMR. Validation: XPX KK RZ. Visualization: XPX RZ. Writing – original draft: XPX RZ. Writing – review & editing: XPX RZ.