About the Authors

Shuai Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuai Tang, Meenu Mishra

Affiliations Molecular Pathology Graduate Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology-Tumor Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Meenu Mishra

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuai Tang, Meenu Mishra

Current address: Center for Microbial Interface Biology, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology-Tumor Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Donna P. Frazier

Affiliation Department of Pathology-Tumor Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Miranda L. Moore

Affiliation Department of Pathology-Tumor Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Kazushi Inoue

Affiliations Department of Pathology-Tumor Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Rajendar Deora

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Guangchao Sui

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Purnima Dubey

pdubey@wakehealth.edu

Affiliations Molecular Pathology Graduate Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology-Tumor Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST PD GS KI RD. Performed the experiments: ST MM MLM DPF PD. Analyzed the data: ST PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS RD KI. Wrote the paper: ST PD.