About the Authors

Betty Lamothe

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

YunJu Lai

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lana Hur

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Natalia Martin Orozco

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Alejandro D. Campos

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Min Xie

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Michael D. Schneider

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Cynthia R. Lockworth

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jared Jakacky

Affiliation School of Health Professions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Diep Tran

Affiliation School of Health Professions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael Ho

Affiliation School of Health Professions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sity Dawud

Affiliation School of Health Professions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chen Dong

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hui-Kuan Lin

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter Hu

Affiliation School of Health Professions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zeev Estrov

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Carlos E. Bueso-Ramos

Affiliation Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bryant G. Darnay

bdarnay@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL BGD. Performed the experiments: BL BGD YL LH ADC NMO JW JJ DT MH SD PH CEB-R. Analyzed the data: BL BGD PH ZE CEB-R. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL BGD PH CEB-R CD H-KL CRL ZE. Wrote the paper: BL BGD.