About the Authors

Minzhao Huang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Su-Ni Tang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Ghanshyam Upadhyay

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Justin L. Marsh

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Christopher P. Jackman

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Sharmila Shankar

sshankar@kumc.edu (SS); rsrivastava@kumc.edu (RKS)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Rakesh K. Srivastava

sshankar@kumc.edu (SS); rsrivastava@kumc.edu (RKS)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS RKS. Performed the experiments: MH S-NT GU JLM CPJ. Analyzed the data: S-NT MH JLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS RKS. Wrote the manuscript: SS RKS.