About the Authors

Handan Sevim

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

au26@georgetown.edu (AÜ); sevimh@hacettepe.edu.tr (HS)

Current address: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Haydar Çelik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Levent Düşünceli

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ceyda S. Ceyhan

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Anna Molotkova

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Kay Nakazawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Garrett T. Graham

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Petro

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Toretsky

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Aykut Üren

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

au26@georgetown.edu (AÜ); sevimh@hacettepe.edu.tr (HS)

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.