About the Authors

Shanna A. Arnold

Current address: Departments of Pathology and Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Lee B. Rivera

Current address: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Juliet G. Carbon

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jason E. Toombs

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chi-Lun Chang

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Amy D. Bradshaw

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Rolf A. Brekken

rolf.brekken@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAA LBR RAB. Performed the experiments: SAA LBR JGC JET CC ADB. Analyzed the data: SAA LBR ADB RAB. Wrote the paper: SAA ADB RAB.