About the Authors

Vijayababu M. Radhakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Steele Children's Research Center, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Pawel Kojs

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Gavin Young

Affiliation Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Rajalakshmy Ramalingam

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Steele Children's Research Center, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Bhumasamudram Jagadish

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Eugene A. Mash

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jesse D. Martinez

Affiliation Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Fayez K. Ghishan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Steele Children's Research Center, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Pawel R. Kiela

pkiela@peds.arizona.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Steele Children's Research Center, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRK VMR. Performed the experiments: VMR PK BJ GY RR. Analyzed the data: VMR PRK PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDM EAM. Wrote the paper: VMR PRK. Obtained funding: FKG PRK. Administrative study supervision: FKG PRK. Critical revision of the manuscript: FKG PRK.