About the Authors

Anvesha Srivastava

Affiliation Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Helle Goldberger

Affiliation Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Alexander Dimtchev

Affiliation Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Malathi Ramalinga

Affiliation Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Juliet Chijioke

Affiliation Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Catalin Marian

Affiliation Biochemistry Department, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania

Eric K. Oermann

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Sunghae Uhm

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Joy S. Kim

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Leonard N. Chen

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Xin Li

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Deborah L. Berry

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Bhaskar V. S. Kallakury

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Subhash C. Chauhan

Affiliation University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Sean P. Collins

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Simeng Suy

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Deepak Kumar

dkumar@udc.edu

Affiliations Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States of America, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS SS SPC SCC DK. Performed the experiments: AS AD HG CM. Analyzed the data: AS EKO LNC XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BVSK DB MR SU JC JSK. Wrote the paper: AS DK.