About the Authors

Ana C. Xavier

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana C. Xavier, Holly Edwards

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Holly Edwards

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana C. Xavier, Holly Edwards

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Alan A. Dombkowski

Affiliations Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Tugce B. Balci

Affiliation IWK Health Centre, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Jason N. Berman

Affiliation IWK Health Centre, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Graham Dellaire

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Chengzhi Xie

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Steven A. Buck

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Larry H. Matherly

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Yubin Ge

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Taub

jtaub@med.wayne.edu

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, IWK Health Centre, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG JT. Performed the experiments: AX HE AD TB JB GD CX SB. Analyzed the data: AX HE AD TB JB GD CX SB LM YG JT. Wrote the paper: AX LM YG JT.