About the Authors

Abhirami A. Ananth

Contributed equally to this work with: Abhirami A. Ananth, Lee-Hwa Tai

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Lee-Hwa Tai

Contributed equally to this work with: Abhirami A. Ananth, Lee-Hwa Tai

Affiliation Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Casey Lansdell

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Almohanad A. Alkayyal

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Katherine E. Baxter

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Leonard Angka

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Jiqing Zhang

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Shandong, China

Christiano Tanese de Souza

Affiliation Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kyle B. Stephenson

Affiliation Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kelley Parato

Affiliation Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Jonathan L. Bramson

Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

John C. Bell

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Brian D. Lichty

‡ A. Ananth and L. Tai are primary authors on this work. B. Lichty and R. Auer are senior authors on this work. B. Lichty and R. Auer also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Rebecca C. Auer

rauer@ottawahospital.on.ca

‡ A. Ananth and L. Tai are primary authors on this work. B. Lichty and R. Auer are senior authors on this work. B. Lichty and R. Auer also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Center for Innovative Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Ananth LHT JCB BDL RCA. Performed the experiments: A. Ananth LHT CL A. Alkayyal KEB LA JZ CTS. Analyzed the data: A. Ananth LHT BDL RCA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KBS KP JLB JCB BDL RCA. Wrote the paper: A. Ananth LHT RCA.