About the Authors

Sally Thomas

Affiliations The Bateson Centre, and The Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom, Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom

Katherine H. Fisher

Affiliation The Bateson Centre, and The Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom

John A. Snowden

Affiliations Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom, Department of Haematology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2JF, United Kingdom

Sarah J. Danson

Affiliations Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom, Sheffield Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2SJ, United Kingdom

Stephen Brown

Affiliation The Sheffield RNAi Screening Facility, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom

Martin P. Zeidler

m.zeidler@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation The Bateson Centre, and The Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST KHF SB MZ. Performed the experiments: ST KHF SB. Analyzed the data: ST KHF SB MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST KHF. Wrote the paper: ST KHF SB MZ JAS SD.