About the Authors

Sham S. Kakar

sskaka01@louisville.edu

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

Affiliations James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Karen S. Powell

Affiliation Research Resources Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Mana Moghadamfalahi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Donald M. Miller

Affiliations James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Surinder K. Batra

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Sanjay K. Singh

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author Surinder Batra is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: SSK. Performed the experiments: SSK SKS KSP. Analyzed the data: SKS. Wrote the paper: SSK. Contributed reagents/material/planning of experiments: SKB. Edited the manuscript: MZR. Provided input in planning the experiments: DMM. Histopathological analysis of tumors and normal tissues MM.