About the Authors

Mahiuddin Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Yehuda Goldgur

Affiliation Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jian Hu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Hong-Fen Guo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Nai-Kong V. Cheung

cheungn@mskcc.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Two of the authors (MA and NKC) were named as inventors on a patent for humanized monoclonal antibody 3F8.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA NKC. Performed the experiments: MA YG JH HFG. Analyzed the data: MA YG NKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG NKC. Wrote the paper: MA.