About the Authors
- Luciano Cascione
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Contributed equally to this work with: Luciano Cascione, Pierluigi Gasparini
Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Pierluigi Gasparini
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Contributed equally to this work with: Luciano Cascione, Pierluigi Gasparini
Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Francesca Lovat
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Stefania Carasi
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Alfredo Pulvirenti
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Alfredo Ferro
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Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Hansjuerg Alder
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Gang He
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Division of Pathology II, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Andrea Vecchione
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Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Ospedale Santo Andrea, Rome, Italy
- Carlo M. Croce
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Charles L. Shapiro
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology and the Breast Program James Cancer Hospital and Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Kay Huebner
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* E-mail: kay.huebner@osumc.edu
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Edited the MS: FL LC CLS SC. Coordination of tissue collection and clinical databases: CLS. Conceived and designed the experiments: KH CLS PG. Performed the experiments: GH PG FL SC. Analyzed the data: LC AP AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HA AV CMC. Wrote the paper: KH PG.