About the Authors

Michael C. Schmid

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Irene Franco

Affiliation Departments of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biotechnology Center, School of Medicine, University of Torino, Italy

Sang Won Kang

Affiliation Division of Life and Pharmaceutical Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Emilio Hirsch

Affiliation Departments of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biotechnology Center, School of Medicine, University of Torino, Italy

Lawrence A. Quilliam

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University of School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Judith A. Varner

jvarner@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Reviewed and revised manuscript: MCS IF SWK EH LAQ JAV. Conceived and designed the experiments: MCS SWK JAV. Performed the experiments: MCS SWK. Analyzed the data: MCS IF SWK EH LAQ JAV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCS IF SWK EH LAQ JAV. Wrote the paper: MCS JAV.