About the Authors

Daniel J. García-Domínguez

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel J. García-Domínguez, Lourdes Hontecillas-Prieto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dgarcia-ibis@us.es (DJGD); enrique.alava.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es (EDA)

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla/CIBERONC, Seville, Spain

Lourdes Hontecillas-Prieto

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel J. García-Domínguez, Lourdes Hontecillas-Prieto

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla/CIBERONC, Seville, Spain

Eduardo Andrés León

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Bioinformatics Unit, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPBLN-CSIC), Granada, Spain

Sara Sánchez-Molina

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Developmental Tumor Biology Laboratory, Institut de Recerca Pediàtrica—Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Pablo Rodríguez-Núñez

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla/CIBERONC, Seville, Spain

Francisco J. Morón

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genomics Core Facility, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Nabil Hajji

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Brain Sciences, The John Fulcher Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom

Carlos Mackintosh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vitro SA, Granada, Spain

Enrique de Álava

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dgarcia-ibis@us.es (DJGD); enrique.alava.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es (EDA)

Affiliations Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla/CIBERONC, Seville, Spain, Department of Normal and Pathological Cytology and Histology, School of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Competing Interests

The author Carlos Mackintosh was a member of Dr. Enrique de Álava group during the design of the HeLa model. Currently, this author is a Vitro SA employee. However, there are no conflicts of interest between this commercial company and our study. We hereby confirm that this commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Therefore, “this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.”