About the Authors

Karishma Gupta

Affiliation Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Vijay S. Thakur

Affiliations Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Natarajan Bhaskaran

Affiliations Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Akbar Nawab

Current address: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Melissa A. Babcook

Affiliations Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mark W. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sanjay Gupta

sanjay.gupta@case.edu

Affiliations Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are are thankful to Dr Mark W Jackson, who is serving a co-author in this manuscript and is an academic editor of the PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VST MWJ SG. Performed the experiments: KG VST NB AN MAB. Analyzed the data: VST SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWJ. Wrote the paper: SG.