About the Authors

Kristine E. Yoder

yoder.176@osu.edu (KEY); rfishel@osu.edu (RF)

Affiliation Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics, Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Amy Espeseth

Affiliation Department of Antiviral Research, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiao-hong Wang

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qingming Fang

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Maria Teresa Russo

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

R. Stephen Lloyd

Affiliation Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Daria Hazuda

Affiliation Department of Antiviral Research, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert W. Sobol

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Richard Fishel

yoder.176@osu.edu (KEY); rfishel@osu.edu (RF)

Affiliations Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics, Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict: Authors A. Espeseth and D. Hazuda are employed by Merck Research Laboratories. All other authors declare that no competing interests exist. All authors agree to make freely available any materials and information described in this publication that are reasonably requested by others for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KEY AE DH RWS RF. Performed the experiments: KEY XW QF. Analyzed the data: KEY AE RSL DH RWS RF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTR RSL RWS. Wrote the paper: KEY AE RSL RWS RF .