About the Authors

William A. Munoz

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Malgorzata Kloc

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Surgery, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kyucheol Cho

Contributed equally to this work with: Kyucheol Cho, Moonsup Lee

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Moonsup Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Kyucheol Cho, Moonsup Lee

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ilse Hofmann

Affiliation Joint Research Division Vascular Biology of the Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg- DKFZ, Mannheim, Germany

Amy Sater

Affiliation Biology and Biochemistry Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kris Vleminckx

Affiliation Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology VIB, Ghent, Belgium

Pierre D. McCrea

pdmccrea@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WAM KC ML IH MK PDM KV. Performed the experiments: WAM KC ML MK. Analyzed the data: WAM KC ML MK PDM AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IH MK AS KV. Wrote the paper: WAM PDM.