About the Authors

Amy L. Howes

Current address: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

Affiliation Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robyn D. Richardson

Current address: Tanabe Research Laboratories, U.S.A., Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Darren Finlay

Affiliation Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kristiina Vuori

kvuori@sanfordburnham.org

Affiliation Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors note that one or more of the authors are currently employed by a commercial company (Tanabe Research Laboratories). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALH DF KV. Performed the experiments: ALH RDR DF. Analyzed the data: ALH RDR DF KV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALH RDR DF. Wrote the paper: ALH RDR DF KV.