About the Authors

Joseph T. O’Flaherty

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Rhonda E. Wooten

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael P. Samuel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael J. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Edward A. Levine

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

L. Douglas Case

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Steven A. Akman

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology and Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Iris J. Edwards

iedwards@wakehealth.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTO SAA IJE. Performed the experiments: REW MPS. Analyzed the data: JTO LDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJT EAL. Wrote the paper: JTO SAA IJE.