About the Authors

Zhiwei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Wang, Sanjeev Banerjee

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

Sanjeev Banerjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Wang, Sanjeev Banerjee

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

Aamir Ahmad

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

Yiwei Li

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

Asfar S. Azmi

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

Jason R. Gunn

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Norris Cotton Comprehsive Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Dejuan Kong

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

Bin Bao

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

Shadan Ali

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Jiankun Gao

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Sichuan College of Tranditional Chinese Medicine, Mianyang, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Ramzi M. Mohammad

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Lucio Miele

Affiliation University of Mississippi Cancer Institute, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Murray Korc

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Norris Cotton Comprehsive Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Fazlul H. Sarkar

fsarkar@med.wayne.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW SB A. Ahmad YL A. S. Azmi J. Gunn DK BB SA J. Gao RM LM MK FHS. Performed the experiments: ZW SB A. Ahmad YL A. S. Azmi J. Gunn DK BB SA J. Gao RM LM MK FHS. Analyzed the data: ZW SB A. Ahmad YL A. S. Azmi J. Gunn DK BB SA RM LM MK FHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW SB A. Ahmad YL A. S. Azmi J. Gunn DK BB SA RM LM MK FHS. Wrote the paper: ZW SB FHS.