About the Authors

Krystal Teasley Hamorsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Krystal Teasley Hamorsky, J. Calvin Kouokam

Affiliations Owensboro Cancer Research Program, Owensboro, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

J. Calvin Kouokam

Contributed equally to this work with: Krystal Teasley Hamorsky, J. Calvin Kouokam

Affiliations Owensboro Cancer Research Program, Owensboro, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Lauren J. Bennett

Affiliation Owensboro Cancer Research Program, Owensboro, Kentucky, United States of America

Keegan J. Baldauf

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Hiroyuki Kajiura

Affiliation International Center for Biotechnology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Kazuhito Fujiyama

Affiliation International Center for Biotechnology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Nobuyuki Matoba

n.matoba@louisville.edu

Affiliations Owensboro Cancer Research Program, Owensboro, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: KTH and NM have filed a patent application concerning the findings described in this paper (International Patent Application No. PCT/US12/29072).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM. Performed the experiments: KTH JCK LJB KJB HK. Analyzed the data: KTH JCK HK KF NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF. Wrote the paper: KTH JCK NM.