About the Authors

Stella Tommasi

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Sang-in Kim

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xueyan Zhong

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xiwei Wu

Affiliation Division of Information Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Gerd P. Pfeifer

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Ahmad Besaratinia

ania@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST GPP AB. Performed the experiments: ST SiK XZ AB. Analyzed the data: ST XW AB. Wrote the paper: AB.