About the Authors

Milan E. Folkers

Contributed equally to this work with: Milan E. Folkers, Don A. Delker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Don A. Delker

Contributed equally to this work with: Milan E. Folkers, Don A. Delker

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Christopher I. Maxwell

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Cassie A. Nelson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Jason J. Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

David A. Nix

Affiliation Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Curt H. Hagedorn

curt.hagedorn@hsc.utah.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH. Performed the experiments: MF DAD CAN. Analyzed the data: MF DAD CIM CAN DN CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJS CH. Wrote the paper: MF DAD CIM CH.