About the Authors

Enza Lonardo

Contributed equally to this work with: Enza Lonardo, Michele Cioffi

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Michele Cioffi

Contributed equally to this work with: Enza Lonardo, Michele Cioffi

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Patricia Sancho

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Yolanda Sanchez-Ripoll

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Sara Maria Trabulo

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Jorge Dorado

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Anamaria Balic

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Manuel Hidalgo

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Cancer Clinical Research Unit, Clinical Research Programme (CNIO), Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Christopher Heeschen

cheeschen@cnio.es

Affiliation Stem Cells & Cancer Group, Molecular Pathology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL MC CH. Performed the experiments: EL MC PS ST YR JD AB. Analyzed the data: EL MC PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH. Wrote the paper: EL CH.