About the Authors

Marsha R. Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Marsha R. Zhang, Stuart D. Red

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stuart D. Red

Contributed equally to this work with: Marsha R. Zhang, Stuart D. Red

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Angela H. Lin

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Saumil S. Patel

Affiliations University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anne B. Sereno

Anne.B.Sereno@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRZ SDR SSP ABS. Performed the experiments: MRZ SDR. Analyzed the data: MRZ SDR AHL SSP ABS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRZ SDR AHL SSP ABS. Wrote the paper: MRZ SDR AHL SSP ABS.