About the Authors

Raj K. Verma

Affiliation Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Kingsville, Texas, United States of America

Venugopal Gunda

Affiliation The Eppley Institute for Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Smita C. Pawar

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Yakkanti Akul Sudhakar

sudhakar.yakkanti@sri.com

Affiliations Cell Signaling Laboratory, Center for Cancer and Metabolism, Bioscience Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, United States of America, Cell Signaling and Tumor Angiogenesis Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS. Performed the experiments: RKV VG SCP YS. Analyzed the data: YS. Wrote the paper: YS. Prepared the figures: YS.