About the Authors

Hisashi Kato

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Zhongji Liao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

John V. Mitsios

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Huan-You Wang

Affiliations Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Elena I. Deryugina

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Judith A. Varner

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

James P. Quigley

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sanford J. Shattil

sshattil@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK EID JPQ SJS. Performed the experiments: HK ZL JVM. Analyzed the data: HK ZL H-YW EID JAV JPQ SJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAV. Wrote the paper: HK EID JAV JPQ SJS.