About the Authors

Alden C. Klarer

Contributed equally to this work with: Alden C. Klarer, L. Jay Stallons

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

L. Jay Stallons

Contributed equally to this work with: Alden C. Klarer, L. Jay Stallons

stallons@musc.edu

Current address: Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Tom J. Burke

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Robert L. Skaggs

Current address: University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

W. Glenn McGregor

Affiliations James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACK LJS WGM. Performed the experiments: ACK LJS TJB RLS. Analyzed the data: ACK LJS TJB RLS WGM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJB WGM. Wrote the paper: ACK LJS.