About the Authors

J. David Stiffler

Affiliation Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Minhhuyen Nguyen

Affiliation Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ji A. Sohn

Affiliation Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chen Liu

Affiliation University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

David Kaplan

Affiliations Research Section, Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Gastroenterology Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christoph Seeger

seeger@fccc.edu

Affiliation Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS. Performed the experiments: JDS JAS. Analyzed the data: JDS CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN CL DEK. Wrote the paper: CS.