About the Authors

Uppoor G. Bhat

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Marianna Halasi

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrei L. Gartel

agartel@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG. Performed the experiments: UGB MH. Analyzed the data: UGB MH AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG. Wrote the paper: AG.