About the Authors

Ivette J. Suarez-Arroyo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Raysa Rosario-Acevedo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Alexandra Aguilar-Perez

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Pedro L. Clemente

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Luis A. Cubano

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Juan Serrano

Affiliation San Pablo Pathology, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Robert J. Schneider

Affiliation New York University Cancer Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Michelle M. Martínez-Montemayor

mmmtz92@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Juan Serrano is a pathologist at San Pablo Pathology who sectioned the tumors from the mice used in this study. Once the animals were euthanized, the authors provided Dr. Serrano the tumors in formalin where he sectioned and mounted them onto slides. He did not know what tumor belonged to what treatment. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMM LAC RJS. Performed the experiments: ISA RRA AAP PLC JS MMM. Analyzed the data: MMM RJS ISA RRA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMM LAC RJS JS. Wrote the paper: MMM ISA RJS LAC.