About the Authors

Vanda Juranic Lisnic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and the Center for Proteomics, University of Rijeka School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia

Marina Babic Cac

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and the Center for Proteomics, University of Rijeka School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia

Berislav Lisnic

Current address: Department of Histology and Embryology and the Center for Proteomics, University of Rijeka School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia.

Affiliation Laboratory of Biology and Microbial Genetics, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Tihana Trsan

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and the Center for Proteomics, University of Rijeka School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia

Adam Mefferd

Current address: Duke University Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

Affiliation The Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Chitrangada Das Mukhopadhyay

Current address: Centre for Healthcare Science and Technology, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India.

Affiliation The Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Charles H. Cook

Affiliation The Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Stipan Jonjic

SJ and JT are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology and the Center for Proteomics, University of Rijeka School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia

Joanne Trgovcich

Joanne.Trgovcich@osumc.edu

SJ and JT are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation The Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT VJL SJ. Performed the experiments: VJL JT MBC TT AM CDM. Analyzed the data: JT VJL BL CHC SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT SJ VJL BL CHC. Wrote the paper: JT VJL SJ CHC.