About the Authors

Rikard Damen

Contributed equally to this work with: Rikard Damen, Martin Haugen

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Pathobiology Research Group, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Martin Haugen

Contributed equally to this work with: Rikard Damen, Martin Haugen

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Pathobiology Research Group, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Bernhard Svejda

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Pathobiology Research Group, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Daniele Alaimo

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Pathobiology Research Group, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Oystein Brenna

Affiliation Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Roswitha Pfragner

Affiliation Institute of Pathophysiology and Immunology, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Graz, Austria

Bjorn I. Gustafsson

Affiliation Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Mark Kidd

[email protected]

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Pathobiology Research Group, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD MH BS BIG MK. Performed the experiments: RD MH BS DA OB MK. Analyzed the data: RD MH BS DA OB BIG MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD MH BS RP BIG MK. Wrote the paper: RD MH BS RP BIG MK.