About the Authors

Bin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Li, Colin A. Flaveny

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Colin A. Flaveny

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Li, Colin A. Flaveny

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Camilla Giambelli

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Dennis Liang Fei

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Lu Han

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Brian I. Hang

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Feng Bai

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Xin-Hai Pei

Affiliations Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Vania Nose

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Oname Burlingame

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Jackson Health System, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Anthony J. Capobianco

Affiliations Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Darren Orton

Affiliation Stemsynergy Therapeutics Inc., Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ethan Lee

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

David J. Robbins

drobbins@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Molecular Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

DJR, AJC and EL are founders of StemSynergy Therapeutics Inc. a company commercializing WNT inhibitors, including CK1α agonists. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL CAF DJR. Performed the experiments: BL CAF CG LH BIH. Analyzed the data: BL CAF EL DO DLF FB XHP OB VN AJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL. Wrote the paper: BL CAF DJR.