About the Authors

Julia L. Rintoul

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia L. Rintoul, Jiahu Wang

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Jiahu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia L. Rintoul, Jiahu Wang

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Don B. Gammon

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Nicholas J. van Buuren

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Kenneth Garson

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Karen Jardine

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Michele Barry

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

David H. Evans

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

John C. Bell

jbell@ohri.ca

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLR JW DBG NJVB KG KJ MB DHE JCB. Performed the experiments: JLR JW DBG NJVB KG. Analyzed the data: JLR JW DBG NJVB KG KJ MB DHE JCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLR JW DBG NJVB KG KJ MB DHE JCB. Wrote the paper: JLR JW JCB.