About the Authors

Michelle Cronin

Affiliation Cork Cancer Research Centre, Mercy University Hospital and Leslie C. Quick Jr. Laboratory, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Ali R. Akin

Affiliation Caliper – a PerkinElmer Company, Alameda, California, United States of America

Sara A. Collins

Affiliations Cork Cancer Research Centre, Mercy University Hospital and Leslie C. Quick Jr. Laboratory, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United State of America

Jeff Meganck

Affiliation Caliper – a PerkinElmer Company, Alameda, California, United States of America

Jae-Beom Kim

Affiliation Caliper – a PerkinElmer Company, Alameda, California, United States of America

Chwanrow K. Baban

Affiliation Cork Cancer Research Centre, Mercy University Hospital and Leslie C. Quick Jr. Laboratory, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Susan A. Joyce

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Gooitzen M. van Dam

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, BioOptical Imaging Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Ning Zhang

Affiliation Caliper – a PerkinElmer Company, Alameda, California, United States of America

Douwe van Sinderen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Gerald C. O'Sullivan

Affiliation Cork Cancer Research Centre, Mercy University Hospital and Leslie C. Quick Jr. Laboratory, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Noriyuki Kasahara

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United State of America

Cormac G. Gahan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Kevin P. Francis

Affiliation Caliper – a PerkinElmer Company, Alameda, California, United States of America

Mark Tangney

m.tangney@ucc.ie

Affiliations Cork Cancer Research Centre, Mercy University Hospital and Leslie C. Quick Jr. Laboratory, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United State of America

Competing Interests

AA, JM, J-BK, NZ and KF are employees of Caliper Life Sciences. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT KF. Performed the experiments: MC AA SC J-BK CB. Analyzed the data: JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ DvS NZ NK CG GO GvD. Wrote the paper: MT MC.