About the Authors

Payam Shahi

Contributed equally to this work with: Payam Shahi, Dongsu Park

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dongsu Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Payam Shahi, Dongsu Park

Current address: Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Adam C. Pond

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mamatha Seethammagari

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shin-Heng Chiou

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kyucheol Cho

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Julienne L. Carstens

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William K. Decker

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pierre D. McCrea

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael M. Ittmann

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Rosen

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David M. Spencer

dspencer@bcm.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS DP AP DS S-HC. Performed the experiments: PS DP AP MS KC S-HC. Analyzed the data: PS DP AP KC JC PM JR DS S-HC WD MI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM JR DS. Wrote the paper: PS DP AP JC JR DS.