About the Authors

Lukas D. Wartman

Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas D. Wartman, John S. Welch

Affiliation Section of Stem Cell Biology, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

John S. Welch

Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas D. Wartman, John S. Welch

Affiliation Section of Stem Cell Biology, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Geoffrey L. Uy

Affiliation Section of Stem Cell Biology, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffery M. Klco

Affiliation Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tamara Lamprecht

Affiliation Section of Stem Cell Biology, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nobish Varghese

Affiliation Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rakesh Nagarajan

Affiliation Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Timothy J. Ley

timley@wustl.edu

Affiliation Section of Stem Cell Biology, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDW JSW GLU TJL. Performed the experiments: LDW JSW GLU KMK TL. Analyzed the data: LDW JSW GLU JMK TL NV RN TJL. Wrote the paper: LDW JSW TJL.