About the Authors

Michael M. Halford

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael M. Halford, Maria L. Macheda

Affiliations Tumour Angiogenesis Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Angiogenesis Laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Maria L. Macheda

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael M. Halford, Maria L. Macheda

Affiliations Tumour Angiogenesis Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Angiogenesis Laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Clare L. Parish

Affiliation Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Melbourne Brain Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Elena A. Takano

Affiliation Tumour Angiogenesis Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Stephen Fox

Affiliations Tumour Angiogenesis Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Daniel Layton

Affiliation Monash Antibody Technologies Facility, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Edouard Nice

Affiliation Monash Antibody Technologies Facility, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Steven A. Stacker

Steven.Stacker@petermac.org

Affiliations Tumour Angiogenesis Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Angiogenesis Laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

Steven Stacker received a fellowship from Pfizer Australia, and this does not affect the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLM MMH CLP DL EN SAS SF. Performed the experiments: MLM MMH CLP DL EN EAT. Analyzed the data: MLM MMH CLP DL EN SAS SF EAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLM MMH CLP EN SAS SF. Wrote the paper: MLM MMH CLP DL EN SAS. Contributed equally to this manuscript: MLM MMH.