About the Authors

Gonzalo Almanza

Contributed equally to this work with: Gonzalo Almanza, Antonio Fernandez

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Antonio Fernandez

Contributed equally to this work with: Gonzalo Almanza, Antonio Fernandez

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Stefano Volinia

Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Telethon Facility-Data Mining for Analysis of DNA Microarrays, Department of Morphology and Embryology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Xochitl Cortez-Gonzalez

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Carlo M. Croce

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Maurizio Zanetti

mzanetti@ucsd.edu

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC MZ. Performed the experiments: GA AF SV. Analyzed the data: GA AF SV XCG CC MZ. Wrote the paper: SV MZ. Prepared figures: GA AF SV. Helped with experiments: XCG.