About the Authors

Anshika Bajaj

Current address: GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, United States of America

# These authors contributed equally to this work and are listed in alphabetical order.

Affiliation Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Qing-fen Li

# These authors contributed equally to this work and are listed in alphabetical order.

Affiliation Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Qingxia Zheng

Affiliation Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Kevin Pumiglia

pumiglk@mail.amc.edu

Affiliation Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB Q-FL KP. Performed the experiments: AB Q-FL QZ. Analyzed the data: AB Q-FL QZ KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB Q-FL. Wrote the paper: AB Q-FL KP.