About the Authors

J. Mauricio Calvo-Calle

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Iwona Strug

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maria-Dorothea Nastke

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen P Baker

Affiliations Department of Information Services, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lawrence J Stern

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lawrence.stern@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JMCC, IS, MDN, and LJS conceived and designed the experiments and performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data. LJS contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JMCC and LJS wrote the paper. IS and MDN edited the paper.