About the Authors

Wei Michael Liu

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ping Huang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Niladri Kar

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Monica Burgett

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Gaelle Muller-Greven

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Amy S. Nowacki

Affiliation Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Clark W. Distelhorst

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Justin D. Lathia

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jeremy N. Rich

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

John C. Kappes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Candece L. Gladson

gladsoc@ccf.org

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WML PH NK CLG. Performed the experiments: WML PH MB GMG NK. Analyzed the data: WML PH NK MB GMG ASN CLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWD JDL JNR JCK. Wrote the paper: WML CLG.