About the Authors

Sarah E. Galanti

Current address: North Country Community College, Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America

Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang

Affiliations Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Edward J. Pearce

edwardpearce@path.wustl.edu

Affiliations Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEG SC-CH EJP. Performed the experiments: SEG. Analyzed the data: SEG SC-CH EJP. Wrote the paper: SEG EJP. Performed the caspase 3 experiment: SC-CH.