About the Authors

Evan Gomes-Giacoia

Contributed equally to this work with: Evan Gomes-Giacoia, Makito Miyake

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Makito Miyake

Contributed equally to this work with: Evan Gomes-Giacoia, Makito Miyake

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Steve Goodison

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Aravindhan Sriharan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Ge Zhang

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Lijing You

Affiliation Altor Bioscience Corporation, Miramar, Florida, United States of America

Jack O. Egan

Affiliation Altor Bioscience Corporation, Miramar, Florida, United States of America

Peter R. Rhode

Affiliation Altor Bioscience Corporation, Miramar, Florida, United States of America

Alexander S. Parker

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Karl X. Chai

Affiliation Burnett College of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Hing C. Wong

Affiliation Altor Bioscience Corporation, Miramar, Florida, United States of America

Charles J. Rosser

cjrosser@hawaii.edu

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Clinical and Translational Research, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The following authors EGG, MM, SG, AS, GZ, ASP, KXC and CJR have declared that no competing interests exist. LY, JOE, PRR and HCW are employees of Altor BioScience Corp. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG JOE PRR ASP KXC HCW CJR. Performed the experiments: EGG MM AS GZ LY. Analyzed the data: EGG MM AS LY JOE PRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCW CJR. Wrote the paper: EGG MM SG JOE PRR ASP KXC HCW CJR.