About the Authors

Vanniarajan Ayyasamy

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanniarajan Ayyasamy, Kjerstin M. Owens

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kjerstin M. Owens

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanniarajan Ayyasamy, Kjerstin M. Owens

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Mohamed Mokhtar Desouki

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Ping Liang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Andrei Bakin

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Donald J. Buchsbaum

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Albert F. LoBuglio

Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Keshav K. Singh

kksingh@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Departments of Genetics, Pathology, Environmental Health, Center for Free Radical Biology, Center for Aging and University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKS DJB AFL KT. Performed the experiments: VA KO MMD PL AB. Analyzed the data: VA KO MMD PL AB DJB AFL KT KKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL. Wrote the paper: KKS VA KO DJB.