About the Authors

J. Saadi Imam

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jason R. Plyler

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason R. Plyler, Hima Bansal, Suresh Prajapati

Affiliations Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Hima Bansal

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason R. Plyler, Hima Bansal, Suresh Prajapati

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Suresh Prajapati

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason R. Plyler, Hima Bansal, Suresh Prajapati

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Sanjay Bansal

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer Rebeles

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Hung-I Harry Chen

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yao-Fu Chang

Affiliations Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Subbarayalu Panneerdoss

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Behyar Zoghi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Kalyan C. Buddavarapu

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Russell Broaddus

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter Hornsby

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Gail Tomlinson

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey Dome

Affiliation Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington D.C., United States of America

Ratna K. Vadlamudi

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Alexander Pertsemlidis

Affiliation Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yidong Chen

Affiliations Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Manjeet K. Rao

raom@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSI JRP HB S. Prajapati MKR. Performed the experiments: JSI JRP HB S. Prajapati SB JR KCB MKR. Analyzed the data: JSI JRP HB S. Prajapati SB JR HHC YFC S. Panneerdoss BZ KCB PH YC MKR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB GT JD RKV MKR. Wrote the paper: JSI JRP HB S. Prajapati YFC RB GT JD RKV AP MKR.