About the Authors

Young Suk Jung

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Xu-Wen Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Rosemarie Chirco

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Richard B. Warner

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Rafael Fridman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Hyeong-Reh Choi Kim

hrckim@med.wayne.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSJ RC RBW XWL RF HRCK. Performed the experiments: YSJ XWL RBW. Analyzed the data: YSJ RC RBW XWL RF HRCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSJ RC XWL HRCK. Wrote the paper: YSJ HRCK.