About the Authors

Mukta D. Khasnis

Contributed equally to this work with: Mukta D. Khasnis, Konstantine Halkidis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Konstantine Halkidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Mukta D. Khasnis, Konstantine Halkidis

Current address: Department of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Anshul Bhardwaj

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Michael J. Root

michael.root@jefferson.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KH MDK MJR. Formal analysis: MDK KH AB MJR. Funding acquisition: MJR. Investigation: MDK KH. Methodology: KH MDK MJR. Resources: AB. Supervision: MJR. Validation: MDK MJR. Visualization: MDK AB MJR. Writing – original draft: MDK. Writing – review & editing: MDK KH AB MJR.