About the Authors

Aleksandra Nowicka

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Frank C. Marini

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Travis N. Solley

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paula B. Elizondo

Affiliation Asuragen Inc., Austin, Texas, United States of America

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hadley J. Sharp

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Russell Broaddus

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

Mikhail Kolonin

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Samuel C. Mok

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Melissa S. Thompson

Affiliation Gulf Coast Consortia, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wendy A. Woodward

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Karen Lu

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bahar Salimian

Affiliation Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Deepak Nagrath

Affiliation Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ann H. Klopp

aklopp@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Please note that one co-author, PBE, is currently employed at Asuragen Inc. in Austin, Texas. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHK AN. Performed the experiments: TS AN PBE MST BS HJS. Analyzed the data: AN TS BS WAW RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN TS PBE FM BS SCM MK KL DN. Wrote the manuscript: AN. Review: AHK AN YZ DN.