About the Authors

Wan-chi Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wan-chi Lin, Jeffrey W. Schmidt

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

Jeffrey W. Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Wan-chi Lin, Jeffrey W. Schmidt

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

Bradley A. Creamer

Current address: Department of Biology, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Missouri, United States of America

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

Aleata A. Triplett

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

Kay-Uwe Wagner

kuwagner@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 Pathology and Microbiology, 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: WcL JWS KUW. Performed the experiments: WcL JWS BAC AAT. Analyzed the data: WcL JWS KUW. Wrote the paper: K.-U.W.