About the Authors

Serge A. Y. Afeli

Affiliation Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

John Malysz

Affiliation Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Georgi V. Petkov

petkov@cop.sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GVP. Performed the experiments: SAYA JM GVP. Analyzed the data: SAYA JM GVP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GVP. Wrote the manuscript: SAYA JM GVP. Interpretation of data: SAYA JM GVP.