About the Authors

Valerie B. Sampson

Contributed equally to this work with: Valerie B. Sampson, Justin M. David

Affiliation Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Justin M. David

Contributed equally to this work with: Valerie B. Sampson, Justin M. David

Current address: Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Isabel Puig

Current address: Stem Cells and Cancer Laboratory, Vall d'Hebrón Institut d'Oncología, Barcelona, Spain

Affiliation IMIM (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques), Barcelona, Spain

Pratima U. Patil

Affiliations Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Antonio García de Herreros

Affiliation IMIM (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques), Barcelona, Spain

George V. Thomas

Affiliation Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Ayyappan K. Rajasekaran

arakaran687@gmail.com

Affiliation Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VBS JMD IP AGH AKR. Performed the experiments: VBS JMD IP PP. Analyzed the data: VBS JMD IP AGH AKR PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGH GVT AKR. Wrote the paper: VBS JMD AGH AKR.