About the Authors

Ahmed Raafat

Affiliation Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Luigi Strizzi

Affiliation Children's Memorial Research Center, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Karim Lashin

Affiliation Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Erika Ginsburg

Affiliation Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David McCurdy

Affiliation Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Salomon

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gilbert H. Smith

Affiliation Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel Medina

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Robert Callahan

rc54d@nih.gov

Affiliation Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR LS KL EG D. Medina DS GHS D. McCurdy RC. Performed the experiments: AR LS KL EG D. Medina D. McCurdy. Analyzed the data: AR LS KL D. Medina. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR LS D. Medina RC. Wrote the paper: AR D. Medina DS GHS RC. Immunohistochemistry analysis, sample collection and mice husbandry: D. McCurdy.