About the Authors

Fausto Rojas

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Maria E. Hernandez

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Milagros Silva

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lihua Li

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Subbaya Subramanian

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael J. Wilson

Wilso042@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Ping Liu

Current address: Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medicine Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Affiliations Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FR MEH SS MJW PL. Performed the experiments: FR MEH MS LL PL. Analyzed the data: FR MEH MS LL SS MJW PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJW SS. Wrote the paper: FR MEH MS LL SS MJW PL.