About the Authors

Tomohisa Yokoyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohisa Yokoyama, Justina Tam

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Justina Tam

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohisa Yokoyama, Justina Tam

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Shinji Kuroda

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ailing W. Scott

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jesse Aaron

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Tim Larson

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Manish Shanker

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arlene M. Correa

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Seiji Kondo

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jack A. Roth

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Konstantin Sokolov

rajagopal-ramesh@ouhsc.edu (RR); kostia@mail.utexas.edu (KS)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rajagopal Ramesh

rajagopal-ramesh@ouhsc.edu (RR); kostia@mail.utexas.edu (KS)

Affiliations Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAR KS RR. Performed the experiments: TY JT SK AWS JA TL MS. Analyzed the data: AMC. Wrote the paper: TY KS RR. Performed statistical analysis: JAR KS. Synthesized and characterized the nanoparticles: JT KS. Guided the autophagy studies: SK.