About the Authors

Sunil Sudarshan

sudarshan@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Karthigayan Shanmugasundaram

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Susan L. Naylor

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shu Lin

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Carolina B. Livi

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Christine F. O'Neill

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Dipen J. Parekh

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

I-Tien Yeh

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Lu-Zhe Sun

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Karen Block

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SLN LZS KB. Performed the experiments: SS KS SL IY CFO. Analyzed the data: SS CBL LZS KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJP. Wrote the paper: SS KB.