About the Authors

Yvonne K. Girard

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Chunyan Wang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Sowndharya Ravi

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Mark C. Howell

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jaya Mallela

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Mahmoud Alibrahim

Affiliation Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Ryan Green

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Gary Hellermann

Affiliation USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Shyam S. Mohapatra

Affiliation USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Subhra Mohapatra

smohapa2@health.usf.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, USF Nanomedicine Research Center, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM SSM YKG CW. Performed the experiments: YKG CW SR MCH JM MA RG GH. Analyzed the data: SM YKG CW. Wrote the paper: SM YKG.