About the Authors
- Michela Garofalo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michela Garofalo, Young-Jun Jeon
* E-mail: carlo.croce@osumc.edu (CC); michela.garofalo@osumc.edu (MG)
Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Young-Jun Jeon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michela Garofalo, Young-Jun Jeon
Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Gerard J. Nuovo
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Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Phylogeny, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Justin Middleton
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Paola Secchiero
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Affiliation Department of Morphology and Embryology, Human Anatomy Section, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Pooja Joshi
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Hansjuerg Alder
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Natalya Nazaryan
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Gianpiero Di Leva
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Giulia Romano
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Melissa Crawford
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Affiliation Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Patrick Nana-Sinkam
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Affiliation Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Carlo M. Croce
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* E-mail: carlo.croce@osumc.edu (CC); michela.garofalo@osumc.edu (MG)
Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
GJN is an employee of Phylogeny, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: MG. Performed the experiments: MG YJJ GJN JM PJ NN GDL GR HA. Analyzed the data: MG YJJ JM PJ HA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG CMC. Wrote the manuscript: MG. Provided the TRAIL for the in vitro experiments: PS. Provided the RNA of normal and tumor lung samples: MC PNS.