About the Authors

Michael Baine

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Baine, Freshta Sahak

Affiliation Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Freshta Sahak

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Baine, Freshta Sahak

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Chi Lin

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Subhankar Chakraborty

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Elizabeth Lyden

Affiliation College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Surinder K. Batra

sbatra@unmc.edu

Affiliations Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJB FS CL. Performed the experiments: MB FS CL. Analyzed the data: MB FS CL EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL SKB. Wrote the paper: MB FS SC.