About the Authors

Vera Levina

levinav@upmc.edu

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

Adele M. Marrangoni

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

Richard DeMarco

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

Elieser Gorelik

Contributed equally to this work with: Elieser Gorelik, Anna E. Lokshin

Affiliations University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anna E. Lokshin

Contributed equally to this work with: Elieser Gorelik, Anna E. Lokshin

Affiliations University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VL EG. Performed the experiments: VL AMM. Analyzed the data: VL RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG AEL. Wrote the paper: VL EG AEL.