About the Authors

Ting Shi

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Tapati Mazumdar

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jennifer DeVecchio

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Zhong-Hui Duan

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, United States of America

Akwasi Agyeman

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mohammad Aziz

Current address: King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Janet A. Houghton

houghtj@ccf.org

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM JAH. Performed the experiments: TS TM JD MAA. Analyzed the data: TS ZHD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZHD. Wrote the paper: TS JAH. Directed the whole project from conceptual design to experimental execution, and preparation of the text of the manuscript: JAH. Data interpretation: TM JD AA. Data presentation design: ZHD AA.