About the Authors

Michelle Barbi de Moura

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Garret Vincent

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shelley L. Fayewicz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicholas W. Bateman

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Brian L. Hood

Affiliation Gynecologic Cancer Center of Excellence, Women's Health Integrated Research Center at Inova Health System, Annandale, Virginia, United States of America

Mai Sun

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph Suhan

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stefan Duensing

Affiliation Sektion Molekulare Uroonkologie, Urologische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Yan Yin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cindy Sander

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John M. Kirkwood

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dorothea Becker

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thomas P. Conrads

Affiliation Gynecologic Cancer Center of Excellence, Women's Health Integrated Research Center at Inova Health System, Annandale, Virginia, United States of America

Bennett Van Houten

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stergios J. Moschos

stergios_moschos@med.unc.edu

Current address: Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBDM GV BV SJM. Performed the experiments: MB GV SLF NWB BLH JS SD YY CS JMK DB TPC BVH SJM. Analyzed the data: MB GV NWB BLH MS SD TPC BVH SJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB NWB BLH JS SD YY CS JMK TPC BVH SJM. Wrote the paper: MB JMK DB BV SJM.