About the Authors

Geeta Lal

Geeta-lal@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Piedad Gomez Contreras

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Mikhail Kulak

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

George Woodfield

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Thomas Bair

Affiliation Iowa Institute of Human Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Frederick E. Domann

Affiliation Department of Free Radical and Radiation Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ronald J. Weigel

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL FED RW. Performed the experiments: PGC MK GW TB. Analyzed the data: GL MK TB FED RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL RW. Wrote the manuscript: GL PGC MK. Critical review of manuscript: FED RW.