About the Authors

Lu Huang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher M. Counter

count004@mc.duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

CMC is an author on a patent application to target NOS in cancer with the drug L-NAME. The authors confirm that this patent does not alter their adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH CMC. Performed the experiments: LH. Analyzed the data: LH CMC. Wrote the paper: LH CMC.