About the Authors

Xin Huang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Haein Park

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Joseph Greene

Affiliation University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

James Pao

Contributed equally to this work with: James Pao, Erin Mulvey

Affiliation New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Erin Mulvey

Contributed equally to this work with: James Pao, Erin Mulvey

Affiliation New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Sophia X. Zhou

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Catherine M. Albert

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Fred Moy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Deepali Sachdev

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Douglas Yee

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Christoph Rader

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, United States of America, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, United States of America

Carl V. Hamby

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

David M. Loeb

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Mitchell S. Cairo

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Xianzheng Zhou

xianzheng_zhou@nymc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH HP MSC XZ. Performed the experiments: XH HP JG JP EM SXZ CVH XZ. Analyzed the data: XH HP FM XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMA DS DY CR DML. Wrote the paper: XH HP JP EM SXZ DS DY CR CVH DML MSC XZ.