About the Authors

Jian Han

Affiliation Department of Biology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America

William E. Seaman

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xiumin Di

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark Willingham

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Frank M. Torti

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Suzy V. Torti

storti@wfubmc.edu

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVT WES FMT. Performed the experiments: JH XD WW. Analyzed the data: MW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WES. Wrote the paper: JH SVT FMT WES.