About the Authors

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Wendy Schulte

Affiliation Innovascreen Inc, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Desmond Pink

Affiliation Innovascreen Inc, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Kyle Phipps

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Andries Zijlstra

Affiliations Innovascreen Inc, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Unites States of America

John D. Lewis

Affiliations Innovascreen Inc, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Oncology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

David Morton Waisman

david.waisman@dal.ca

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ JDL DMW. Performed the experiments: YZ WS DP KDP. Analyzed the data: YZ JDL DMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZ. Wrote the paper: YZ AZ DMW.