About the Authors

Yang Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Doruk Keskin

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Matrix Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hikaru Sugimoto

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Matrix Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keizo Kanasaki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Diabetology & Endocrinology, Kanazawa Medical University & Division of Anticipatory Molecular Food Science and Technology, Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan

Affiliation Division of Matrix Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patricia E. Phillips

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lauren Bizarro

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arlene Sharpe

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valerie S. LeBleu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Matrix Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Raghu Kalluri

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rkalluri@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Matrix Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.