About the Authors

Aditi Mathur

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Zakaria Y. Abd Elmageed

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Xichun Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Mikhail L. Kostochka

Affiliation Peptide Research Laboratories, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Haitao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Asim B. Abdel-Mageed

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Debasis Mondal

dmondal@tulane.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM DM. Performed the experiments: AM ZYA XL MLK. Analyzed the data: AM ABA DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ ABA DM. Wrote the paper: AM DM.