About the Authors

Kathy H. Y Shair

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

Katherine M Bendt

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

Rachel H Edwards

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

Elisabeth C Bedford

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

Judith N Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nancy Raab-Traub

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nrt@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Microbiology-Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KHYS and NRT conceived and designed the experiments. KHYS, KMB, RHE, and ECB performed the experiments. KHYS, NRT, and JNN analyzed the data. KHYS and NRT wrote the paper.