About the Authors

Keiko Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Anton Matafonov

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Katherine Sumarriva

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Hideyuki Ito

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Colette Lauhan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Dana Zemel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Nobuo Tsuboi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Jin Chen

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Albert Reynolds

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Takamune Takahashi

takamune.takahashi@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT AR. Performed the experiments: KT AM KS HI CL DZ NT. Analyzed the data: TT KT AM KS HI NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC AR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TT KT AM KS.