About the Authors

Deborah A. Altomare

Contributed equally to this work with: Deborah A. Altomare, Craig W. Menges

Current address: Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Craig W. Menges

Contributed equally to this work with: Deborah A. Altomare, Craig W. Menges

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jinfei Xu

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianming Pei

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lili Zhang

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ara Tadevosyan

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erin Neumann-Domer

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zemin Liu

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michele Carbone

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Ilse Chudoba

Affiliation MetaSystems, Altlussheim, Germany

Andres J. Klein-Szanto

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph R. Testa

joseph.testa@fccc.edu

Affiliation Cancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors (I.C.) is employed by a commercial company (MetaSystems, Altlussheim, Germany). This fact does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAA CWM JRT. Performed the experiments: DAA CWM JX JP LZ AT EN-D ZL IC. Analyzed the data: DAA CWM JP IC MC AJK-S JRT. Wrote the paper: DAA CWM JRT.