About the Authors

Su-Ni Tang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Junsheng Fu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Sharmila Shankar

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Rakesh K. Srivastava

rsrivastava@kumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS RKS. Performed the experiments: ST JF. Analyzed the data: ST JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS RKS. Wrote the paper: ST.