About the Authors

Angelica Benavides-Serrato

Contributed equally to this work with: Angelica Benavides-Serrato, Jihye Lee

Affiliations Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Research & Development, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jihye Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Angelica Benavides-Serrato, Jihye Lee

Current address: Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University, 24, Namdong-daero 774 beon-gil, Namdong-gu, Incheon, South Korea

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brent Holmes

Affiliations Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Research & Development, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kenna A. Landon

Affiliation Department of Research & Development, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tariq Bashir

Affiliation Department of Research & Development, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael E. Jung

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alan Lichtenstein

Affiliations Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Research & Development, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joseph Gera

jgera@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Research & Development, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, 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

Conceptualization: ABS BH JL MEJ AL JG. Formal analysis: ABS BH JL MEJ AL JG. Funding acquisition: AL JG. Investigation: ABS BH JL KAL TB. Methodology: ABS BH JL MEJ AL JG. Project administration: ABS JL BH MEJ JG. Resources: ABS JL BH TB MEJ AL JG. Supervision: MEJ JG. Validation: ABS BH JL TB MEJ AL JG. Visualization: ABS BH JL MEJ JG. Writing – original draft: ABS JL. Writing – review & editing: ABS BH JL MEJ AL JG.