About the Authors

Renata Dziedzic

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Manjot Kiran

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Przemyslaw Plocinski

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Malgorzata Ziolkiewicz

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland

Anna Brzostek

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland

Meredith Moomey

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Indumati S. Vadrevu

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Jaroslaw Dziadek

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland

Murty Madiraju

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Malini Rajagopalan

malini.rajagopalan@uthct.edu

Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler Biomedical Research, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD JD MVVM MR. Performed the experiments: RD MK PP MZ AB MM IV MVVM MR. Analyzed the data: RD MK PP MZ AB MM JD MVVM MR. Wrote the paper: RD MVVM MR.