About the Authors

Shujuan Pan

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaoyun Cheng

Affiliations Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, University of Texas-M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hongan Chen

Affiliations Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Participant in the Baylor College of Medicine Summer Medical and Research Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patricia D. Castro

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael M. Ittmann

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anne W. Hutson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics-Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Susan K. Zapata

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard N. Sifers

rsifers@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP AH MI RS. Performed the experiments: SP HC XC PC. Analyzed the data: SP XC PC MI AH RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC MI SZ. Wrote the manuscript: SP RS.