About the Authors

Xianming Yu

Affiliation McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Zhenxun Wang

Affiliation McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Janet E Mertz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mertz@oncology.wisc.edu

Affiliation McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

XY and JEM conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. XY performed most of the experiments. ZW performed IFS and constructed the wild-type revertant of the ZV mutant.