About the Authors

Sally Stabler

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Tatsuki Koyama

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Zhiguo Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Magaly Martinez-Ferrer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Robert H. Allen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Zigmund Luka

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lioudmila V. Loukachevitch

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Peter E. Clark

Affiliation Department Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Conrad Wagner

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Neil A. Bhowmick

bhowmickn@cshs.org

Affiliations Department Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW NAB PEC SS. Performed the experiments: SS MM-F RHA LVL ZAL. Analyzed the data: SS TK ZZ CW NAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NAB TK CW SS. Wrote the paper: NAB CW TK PEC.