About the Authors

Matthew B. Lipner

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Raoud Marayati

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Yangmei Deng

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Xianxi Wang

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Laura Raftery

Affiliation ProHealth Care Regional Cancer Center, Waukesha, WI, United States of America

Bert H. O’Neil

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Jen Jen Yeh

jjyeh@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrinology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BHO JJY LR MBL XW YD. Performed the experiments: MBL YD XW. Analyzed the data: MBL RM YD XW JJY. Wrote the paper: MBL BHO YD RM XW LR JJY.