About the Authors

Suneeta S. Paroly

sparoly@bhsec.bard.edu

Current address: Bard High School Early College, Long Island City, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Urology, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Fengwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lee Spraggon

Affiliation Department of Urology, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph Merregaert

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Ekatherina Batourina

Affiliation Department of Urology, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Benjamin Tycko

Affiliation Institute for Cancer Genetics & Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kai M. Schmidt-Ott

Affiliation Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine Robert-Roessle-Str. Berlin, Germany

Sean Grimmond

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD, Australia

Melissa Little

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD, Australia

Cathy Mendelsohn

Affiliation Department of Urology, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSP CM. Performed the experiments: FW LS EB BT KMS SG ML. Analyzed the data: BT KMS SG ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM. Wrote the paper: SSP CM.