About the Authors

Dejuan Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Dejuan Kong, Sanjeev Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Sanjeev Banerjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Dejuan Kong, Sanjeev Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Aamir Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Yiwei Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Zhiwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Seema Sethi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Fazlul H. Sarkar

fsarkar@med.wayne.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK SB AA YL FHS. Performed the experiments: DK SB AA ZW SS. Analyzed the data: DK SB AA YL ZW SS FHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FHS. Wrote the paper: DK SB YL ZW SS FHS. Principal investigator: FHS. Conception and design: FHS. Laboratory facility and financial support: FHS. Experimental design: FHS. Data interpretation: FHS. Manuscript writing and final approval of the manuscript: FHS.