About the Authors

Paola D. Vermeer

Affiliation Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Megan Bell

Affiliation Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Kimberly Lee

Affiliation Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Daniel W. Vermeer

Affiliation Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Byrant G. Wieking

Affiliation Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Erhan Bilal

Affiliation Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

Gyan Bhanot

Affiliation Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ronny I. Drapkin

Affiliation Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shridar Ganesan

Affiliation Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Aloysius J. Klingelhutz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Wiljan J. Hendriks

Affiliation Cell Biology Laboratory at the NCMLS, Raboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

John H. Lee

John.Lee@SanfordHealth.org

Affiliations Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PDV JHL. Performed the experiments: PDV MB KL DWV EB GB BGW. Analyzed the data: PDV DWV JHL RID SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG AJK WJH. Wrote the paper: PDV RID SG JHL.