About the Authors

Olga V. Leontieva

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Zoya N. Demidenko

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Andrei V. Gudkov

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Mikhail V. Blagosklonny

blagosklonny@oncotarget.com

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Author Mikhail Blagosklonny is a PLoS ONE Academic Editor. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OVL ZND AVG MVB. Performed the experiments: OVL ZND MVB. Analyzed the data: OVL ZND AVG MVB. Wrote the paper: OVL MVB.