About the Authors

Lisa J. Robinson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: 983135 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine, and of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

Jonathan Soboloff

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Irina L. Tourkova

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

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and of Cell Biology, The Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Quitterie C. Larrouture

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and of Cell Biology, The Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Kelechi M. Onwuka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and of Cell Biology, The Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Dionysios J. Papachristou

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departments of Pathology and of Cell Biology, The Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Laboratory of Bone and Soft Tissue Studies, Department of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, University Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece

Scott Gross

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Robert Hooper

Roles Investigation

Current address: Rockland Immunochemicals Inc., Limerick, PA, United States of America

Affiliation Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Elsie Samakai

Roles Investigation

Current address: Exploratory Biology group, Janssen Pharmaceutical, Spring House, PA, United States of America

Affiliation Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Paul F. Worley

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Peng Liu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Comparative Molecular Endocrinology, Helmholtzstraße, Ulm, Germany

Jan Tuckermann

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Comparative Molecular Endocrinology, Helmholtzstraße, Ulm, Germany

Michelle R. Witt

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine, and of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

Harry C. Blair

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hcblair@pitt.edu

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and of Cell Biology, The Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.