About the Authors

Louise M. Judd

Contributed equally to this work with: Louise M. Judd, Treve R. Menheniott

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Treve R. Menheniott

Contributed equally to this work with: Louise M. Judd, Treve R. Menheniott

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Hui Ling

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Cameron B. Jackson

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Meegan Howlett

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Anastasia Kalantzis

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Waldemar Priebe

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Andrew S. Giraud

andrew.giraud@mcri.edu.au

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

Waldemar Priebe hold patents and has a financial interest in the development of compound WP1066 as follows; W.Priebe, N.Donato, M.Talpaz, S, Szymanski, I. Fokt, A. Levitzki Compounds for the treatment of cell proliferative diseases. Unites States Patent WO/2005/058829 12/01/2004. Note also that the authors have provided an amended statement of Competing Interests regarding a patent on WP1066 held by W. Priebe. The authors also declare that “this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials”.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMJ TRM ASG. Performed the experiments: LMJ TRM HL CBJ MH AK. Analyzed the data: LMJ TRM ASG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WP. Wrote the paper: ASG LMJ ASG TRM WP.