About the Authors

Sreekumar Othumpangat

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Research Institute, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Laura F. Gibson

Affiliations Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Lennie Samsell

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Research Institute, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Giovanni Piedimonte

gpiedimonte@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Research Institute, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SO LFG GP. Performed the experiments: SO LS. Analyzed the data: SO GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO LFG GP. Wrote the paper: SO LFG GP.