About the Authors

Dejuan Kong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Aamir Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Bin Bao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Yiwei Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Sanjeev Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Fazlul H. Sarkar

fsarkar@med.wayne.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK AA YL FHS. Performed the experiments: DK AA BB YL SB. Analyzed the data: DK AA BB YL FHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK SB FHS. Wrote the paper: DK AA FHS.