About the Authors

Alexander N. Shakhov

ashakhov@cbiolabs.com

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Vijay K. Singh

Affiliations Radiation Countermeasures Program, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Radiation Biology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Frederick Bone

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Alec Cheney

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yevgeniy Kononov

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Peter Krasnov

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Troitza K. Bratanova-Toshkova

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Vera V. Shakhova

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jason Young

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Michael M. Weil

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Christie M. Orschell

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Patricia S. Baker

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Andrei Gudkov

Affiliations Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Elena Feinstein

Affiliation Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors Alexander N. Shakhov, Frederick Bone, Alec Cheney, Yevgeniy Kononov, Peter Krasnov, Troitza Toshkova, Vera V. Shakhova, Jason Young, Patricia S. Baker, Andrei Gudkov and Elena Feinstein are employed by Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. The authors can confirm this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ANS. Performed the experiments: VKS FB AC YK JY TBT PK VVS MMW APM CMO. Analyzed the data: ANS. Wrote the paper: ANS PSB AG EF.