About the Authors

Tadayuki Akagi

Contributed equally to this work with: Tadayuki Akagi, Nils H. Thoennissen

tadayuki@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

Current address: Department of Stem Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nils H. Thoennissen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tadayuki Akagi, Nils H. Thoennissen

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ann George

Affiliation Division of Research Immunology/BMT, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gay Crooks

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jee Hoon Song

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ryoko Okamoto

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel Nowak

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Adrian F. Gombart

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

H. Phillip Koeffler

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA NHT. Performed the experiments: TA NHT. Analyzed the data: AG GC AFG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHS RO DN. Wrote the paper: TA NHT HPK.