About the Authors

Jesse M. Flynn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse M. Flynn, Eric Meadows

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate Training Program in Genes and Development, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric Meadows

Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse M. Flynn, Eric Meadows

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate Training Program in Genes and Development, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marta Fiorotto

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William H. Klein

whklein@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate Training Program in Genes and Development, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMF EM MF WHK. Performed the experiments: JMF EM. Analyzed the data: JMF EM MF WHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF. Wrote the paper: JMF EM MF WHK.