About the Authors

Roble G. Bedolla

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jingjing Gong

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Thomas J. Prihoda

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

I-Tien Yeh

Current address: Department of Pathology, Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ian M. Thompson

Affiliations Department of Urology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Rita Ghosh

Affiliations Department of Urology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Addanki P. Kumar

kumara3@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations Department of Urology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG IMT APK. Performed the experiments: JJG RG APK. Analyzed the data: RB TJP ITY RG APK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IMT TJP ITY RB. Wrote the paper: RB RG APK. Reviewed various versions of manuscript prior to submission: JJG TJP ITY IMT.