About the Authors

Beihua Dong

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Robert H. Silverman

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Eugene S. Kandel

eugenekandel@yahoo.com

Current address: Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD RHS ESK. Performed the experiments: BD ESK. Analyzed the data: BD RHS ESK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RHS ESK. Wrote the paper: BD RHS ESK.