About the Authors

Snehalata A. Pawar

Contributed equally to this work with: Snehalata A. Pawar, Lijian Shao

SAPawar@uams.edu

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Lijian Shao

Contributed equally to this work with: Snehalata A. Pawar, Lijian Shao

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Jianhui Chang

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Wenze Wang

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Rupak Pathak

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Xiaoyan Zhu

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Junru Wang

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Howard Hendrickson

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Marjan Boerma

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Esta Sterneck

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Daohong Zhou

Affiliation Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Martin Hauer-Jensen

Affiliations Division of Radiation Health, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Surgical Service, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAP LS DZ MHJ. Performed the experiments: SAP LS JC WW RP XZ JW HH. Analyzed the data: SAP LS DZ MHJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB ES DZ MHJ. Wrote the paper: SAP.