Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01CA172222)
Article History
Received: 5 June 2019
Accepted: 27 November 2019
First Online: 3 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The studies described in this paper were performed using commercially available cell lines. This article does not contain any experiments involving patients or experimental animals. Therefore, no IACUC approval and no informed consent from the donors were required.
: MDA-MB-231, BT549, MCF10A, A549, and DU-145 cell lines were from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). SUM149 and SUM159 cell lines were obtained from Asterand (Detroit, MI). These cell lines were authenticated by their suppliers using short tandem repeat analysis and have been passaged for fewer than 6 months after culture initiation from an early passage number.