Nature Communications 4: Article number: 2139 (2013); Published 10 July 2013; Updated 18 June 2015.

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Young Chan Chae and Dario C. Altieri are co-inventors on the patent entitled ‘Methods of Controlling Tumor Bioenergetics Networks’ patent number: WO2013123151 A1. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.