About the Authors

Jian Fu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fang Jin

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

Jirong Zhang

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

Kathryn Fong

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

Daniel E. Bassi

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ricardo Lopez De Cicco

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Divya Ramaraju

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

Karl-Heinz Braunewell

Affiliation Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Claudio Conti

Affiliation Department of Carcinogenesis, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Fernando Benavides

Affiliation Department of Carcinogenesis, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Andres J. P. Klein-Szanto

aj_klein-szanto@fccc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Cancer Biology Program, 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: DEB KHB CJC FB AKS. Performed the experiments: JF FJ JZ KF RLDC DR AKS. Analyzed the data: JF FJ JZ KF DEB RLDC CJC FB AKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KHB CJC FB. Wrote the paper: JF AKS.