About the Authors

Yonatan Y. Mahller

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Physician Scientist Training Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Graduate Program of Molecular and Developmental Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jon P. Williams

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

William H. Baird

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Physician Scientist Training Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Graduate Program of Molecular and Developmental Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Bryan Mitton

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Physician Scientist Training Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jonathan Grossheim

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yoshinaga Saeki

Affiliation Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-Oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jose A. Cancelas

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Nancy Ratner

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Timothy P. Cripe

timothy.cripe@cchmc.org.

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YYM JPW TPC. Performed the experiments: YYM JPW WHB BM JG. Analyzed the data: YYM JPW WHB BM JAC NR TPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPW YS JAC NR. Wrote the paper: YYM TPC.