About the Authors

Ana de la Cueva

Current address: IMDEA Food Institute, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Ana Ramírez de Molina

Current address: IMDEA Food Institute, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Néstor Álvarez-Ayerza

Affiliation Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Ma Angeles Ramos

Affiliation Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Arancha Cebrián

Current address: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Teresa Gómez del Pulgar

Current address: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Juan Carlos Lacal

jclacal@iib.uam.es

Affiliations Traslational Oncology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

Juan Carlos Lacal is a founder of TCD Pharma and a member of its scientific advisory board but not an employee of the company. TCD Pharma is developing the compound TCD717, a ChoKα inhibitor, that is currently in Phase I clinical trials. 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: ARDM JCL TGDP AC. Performed the experiments: ADLC ARDM NAA MAR. Analyzed the data: ADLC ARDM JCL TGDP AC. Wrote the paper: ADLC ARDM TGDP AC JCL.