About the Authors

Zhe Ma

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

Sharon E. Hopcraft

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

Fan Yang

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

Alex Petrucelli

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

Haitao Guo

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

Jenny P-Y Ting

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

Dirk P. Dittmer

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

Blossom Damania

damania@med.unc.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZM BD. Data curation: ZM. Formal analysis: ZM BD DPD. Funding acquisition: BD DPD JPYT. Investigation: ZM. Methodology: ZM. Project administration: ZM BD. Resources: ZM SEH HG AP FY JPYT. Supervision: ZM BD. Validation: ZM. Visualization: ZM BD. Writing – original draft: ZM BD. Writing – review & editing: ZM BD.