About the Authors

Sitaram Harihar

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Keke M. Pounds

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Tomoo Iwakuma

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Nabil G. Seidah

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, affiliated to Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Danny R. Welch

Dwelch@KUMC.edu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH DRW. Performed the experiments: SH KMP TI. Analyzed the data: SH KMP TI NGS DRW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH KMP NGS DRW. Wrote the paper: SH KMP TI NGS DRW.