About the Authors

Tirumuru Nagaraja

Contributed equally to this work with: Tirumuru Nagaraja, Li Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Li Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tirumuru Nagaraja, Li Chen

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Anuradha Balasubramanian

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jerome E. Groopman

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kalpana Ghoshal

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Samson T. Jacob

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Andrew Leask

Affiliation Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

David R. Brigstock

David.Brigstock@nationwidechildrens.org (DRB); Appakkudal.Anand@osumc.edu (ARA); Ramesh.Ganju@osumc.edu (RKG)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Appakkudal R. Anand

David.Brigstock@nationwidechildrens.org (DRB); Appakkudal.Anand@osumc.edu (ARA); Ramesh.Ganju@osumc.edu (RKG)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ramesh K. Ganju

David.Brigstock@nationwidechildrens.org (DRB); Appakkudal.Anand@osumc.edu (ARA); Ramesh.Ganju@osumc.edu (RKG)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN LC AB JEG KG STJ DRB ARA RKG. Performed the experiments: TN LC AB. Analyzed the data: TN LC DRB ARA RKG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL. Wrote the paper: TN LC DRB ARA RKG.