About the Authors

Matthew J. Munro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, Wellington, New Zealand, School of Biological Sciences and Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Lifeng Peng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences and Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Susrutha K. Wickremesekera

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, Wellington, New Zealand, Department of General Surgery, Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Section, Wellington Regional Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

Swee T. Tan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

swee.tan@gmri.org.nz

Affiliations Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, Wellington, New Zealand, Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial & Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. STT is an inventor of the patents Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy (PCT/NZ2015/050108), Cancer Therapeutic (PCT/NZ2018/050006), Novel Pharmaceutical Compositions for Cancer Therapy (US/62/711709) and Cancer diagnosis and therapy (United States Patent No. 10281472). This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.