About the Authors

Priya Saikumar Lakshmi

Contributed equally to this work with: Priya Saikumar Lakshmi, Dheeraj Verma

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Dheeraj Verma

Contributed equally to this work with: Priya Saikumar Lakshmi, Dheeraj Verma

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Xiangdong Yang

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Bethany Lloyd

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Henry Daniell

Henry.Daniell@ucf.edu

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSL DV HD. Performed the experiments: PSL DV XY BL. Analyzed the data: PSL DV XY BL HD. Wrote the paper: PSL DV XY BL HD.