About the Authors

Songthip Ounpraseuth

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Tonya M. Rafferty

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Rachel E. McDonald-Phillips

Current address: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Whitney M. Gammill

Current address: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Eric R. Siegel

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Kristin L. Wheeler

Current address: Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Erik A. Nilsson

Current address: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Craig A. Cooney

CooneyCraigA@uams.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Systems, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

CAC acknowledges U.S. patent no. 6,541,680 and U.S. patent application 10402704. This has no influence on the content of this article.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STO CAC. Performed the experiments: TMR REMP WMG KLW. Analyzed the data: STO TMR ERS EAN CAC. Wrote the paper: STO TMR ERS CAC.