About the Authors

Shikhar Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Shikhar Sharma, Daniel D. De Carvalho

Affiliations Department of Urology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Program in Genetic, Molecular, and Cellular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel D. De Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Shikhar Sharma, Daniel D. De Carvalho

Affiliation Department of Urology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shinwu Jeong

Affiliation Department of Urology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Peter A. Jones

pjones@med.usc.edu (PAJ); gliang@usc.edu (GL)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gangning Liang

pjones@med.usc.edu (PAJ); gliang@usc.edu (GL)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS GL PAJ. Performed the experiments: SS DDDC SJ. Analyzed the data: SS DDDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL PAJ. Wrote the paper: SS.