About the Authors

Jieru Egeria Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jieru Egeria Lin, Adam Eugene Snook, Peng Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Adam Eugene Snook

Contributed equally to this work with: Jieru Egeria Lin, Adam Eugene Snook, Peng Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jieru Egeria Lin, Adam Eugene Snook, Peng Li

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Brian Arthur Stoecker

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gilbert Won Kim

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael Sullivan Magee

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alex Vladimir Mejia Garcia

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael Anthony Valentino

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Terry Hyslop

Affiliation Divison of Biostatistics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephanie Schulz

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Scott Arthur Waldman

Scott.Waldman@Jefferson.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: This study was partly funded by Targeted Diagnostic and Therapeutics Inc. Dr. Waldman is the Chair (uncompensated) of the Scientific Advisory Board of Targeted Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Inc., which has a license to commercialize inventions related to this work. Dr. Waldman is the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Endowed Professor. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEL AES PL SS SAW. Performed the experiments: JEL AES PL BAS GWK MSM AVMG. Analyzed the data: JEL PL TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAV. Wrote the paper: JEL AES SAW.