About the Authors

Haoquan Wu

haoquan.wu@ttuhsc.edu (HW); manjunath.swamy@ttuhsc.edu (NM)

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Hongming Ma

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Chunting Ye

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Danielle Ramirez

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Shuiping Chen

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Jessica Montoya

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Premlata Shankar

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Xiaozhong A. Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

N. Manjunath

haoquan.wu@ttuhsc.edu (HW); manjunath.swamy@ttuhsc.edu (NM)

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW NM. Performed the experiments: HW HM CY DR SC JM. Analyzed the data: HW HM CY PS NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XAW. Wrote the paper: HW NM.