About the Authors

Venugopal Thayanithy

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

ChangWon Park

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Aaron L. Sarver

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Reena V. Kartha

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Derek M. Korpela

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Ashley J. Graef

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Clifford J. Steer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jaime F. Modiano

Affiliations Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Subbaya Subramanian

subree@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VT CWP ALS JFM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VT CWP ALS RK DMK AJG CJS JFM SS. Wrote the paper: VT ALS RK JFM CJS SS.