About the Authors

Nadine Nelson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Shengyan Xiang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Xiaohong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Danielle Gilvary

Affiliation Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Julie Djeu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Kazim Husain

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Mokenge Malafa

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Nasreen Vohra

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Shari Pilon-Thomas

Affiliation Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Tomar Ghansah

Tghansah@health.usf.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America, Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG NN. Performed the experiments: NN TG SX DG KH. Analyzed the data: TG NN SX DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ MM JD NV SPT. Wrote the paper: NN TG.