About the Authors

Adam Pickard

a.pickard@qub.ac.uk (AP); dmccance@salud.unm.edu (DJM)

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Simon S. McDade

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Marie McFarland

Affiliation Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom

W. Glenn McCluggage

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom

Cosette M. Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Dennis J. McCance

a.pickard@qub.ac.uk (AP); dmccance@salud.unm.edu (DJM)

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP SSM CMW DJM. Performed the experiments: AP SSM. Analyzed the data: AP SSM WGM CMW DJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP SSM MM WGM CMW DJM. Wrote the paper: AP DJM.