About the Authors

Nicholas D. Leigh

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Guanglin Bian

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Xilai Ding

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Hong Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Semra Aygun-Sunar

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Lyudmila G. Burdelya

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Andrei V. Gudkov

Affiliation Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Xuefang Cao

Xuefang.Cao@RoswellPark.org

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Lyudmila Burdelya and Andrei Gudkov are paid consultants of Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. and Andrei Gudkov is a shareholder of Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. The other authors have no conflict of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and material.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NDL GB XD SAS HL LGB AVG XC. Performed the experiments: NDL GB XD SAS XC. Analyzed the data: NDL GB XD SAS LGB AVG XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LGB AVG. Wrote the paper: NDL HL LGB AVG XC.