About the Authors

Beata Berent-Maoz

Contributed equally to this work with: Beata Berent-Maoz, Encarnacion Montecino-Rodriguez

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Encarnacion Montecino-Rodriguez

Contributed equally to this work with: Beata Berent-Maoz, Encarnacion Montecino-Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael Fice

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David Casero

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christopher S. Seet

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gay M. Crooks

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

William Lowry

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kenneth Dorshkind

kdorshki@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB EMR CSS GMC WL KD. Performed the experiments: BB EMR MF CSS. Analyzed the data: BB EMR DC CSS GMC WL KD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL. Wrote the paper: BB EMR GMC KD.