About the Authors

Nagireddy Putluri

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Ali Shojaie

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Vihas T. Vasu

Affiliations Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Srilatha Nalluri

Affiliations Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Shaiju K. Vareed

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Vasanta Putluri

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Anuradha Vivekanandan-Giri

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jeman Byun

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Subramaniam Pennathur

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Theodore R. Sana

Affiliation Metabolomics Laboratory Application Group, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Steven M. Fischer

Affiliation Metabolomics Laboratory Application Group, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Ganesh S. Palapattu

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, Unites States of America

Chad J. Creighton

Affiliation Dan. L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

George Michailidis

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Arun Sreekumar

sreekuma@bcm.edu

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Urology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASK. Performed the experiments: NP VTV SN SKV VP AV-G SP. Analyzed the data: AS CJC GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB TRS SMF GSP. Wrote the paper: NP ASK GSP.