About the Authors

Yu-Li Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Li Lin, Shomit Sengupta

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shomit Sengupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Li Lin, Shomit Sengupta

Affiliations Department of Biology and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katherine Gurdziel

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

George W. Bell

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tyler Jacks

Affiliations Department of Biology and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Elsa R. Flores

elsaflores@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLL SS ERF. Performed the experiments: YLL SS ERF. Analyzed the data: YLL SS KG GWB ERF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YLL SS TJ ERF. Wrote the paper: YLL SS ERF.