About the Authors

Carrie Belfield

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Craig Queenan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Hui Rao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Kenji Kitamura

Affiliation Center for Gene Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Nancy C. Walworth

walworna@rwjms.rutgers.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB CQ HR NCW. Performed the experiments: CB CQ HR. Analyzed the data: CB CQ HR NCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK. Wrote the paper: CB NCW.