About the Authors

Xudong Lin

Current address: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Elena E. Paskaleva

Current address: for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America, Palm Biologicals, LLC. Albany, New York, United States of America

William Chang

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Alexander Shekhtman

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America, Palm Biologicals, LLC. Albany, New York, United States of America

Mario Canki

cankim@mail.amc.edu

Affiliations Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America, Palm Biologicals, LLC. Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AS EEP. Performed the experiments: XL EEP WC AS. Analyzed the data: XL EEP AS MC. Wrote the paper: MC.