About the Authors

Lu Chen

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lei Du-Cuny

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sylvestor Moses

Affiliation Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology, the University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Sabrina Dumas

Affiliation Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology, the University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Zuohe Song

Affiliation Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology, the University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Abdol Hossein Rezaeian

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hui-Kuan Lin

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Emmanuelle J. Meuillet

emeuillet@azcc.arizona.edu (EJM); shuzhang@mdanderson.org (SZ)

Affiliation Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology, the University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Shuxing Zhang

emeuillet@azcc.arizona.edu (EJM); shuzhang@mdanderson.org (SZ)

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJM SZ. Performed the experiments: LC LDC SM SD ZS AHR. Analyzed the data: LC LDC SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HKL EJM SZ. Wrote the paper: LC LDC SZ.