About the Authors

Shailaja Akunuru

Affiliations Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular Developmental Biology Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Joseph Palumbo

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Qihui James Zhai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yi Zheng

yi.zheng@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular Developmental Biology Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA YZ. Performed the experiments: SA JP. Analyzed the data: SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QJZ YZ. Wrote the paper: SA YZ.