About the Authors

Linnea R. Freeman

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center/LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Le Zhang

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center/LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Kalavathi Dasuri

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center/LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Sun-Ok Fernandez-Kim

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center/LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Annadora J. Bruce-Keller

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center/LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeffrey N. Keller

Jeffrey.Keller@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center/LSU System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNK ABK LRF. Performed the experiments: LRF LZ KD SFK. Analyzed the data: LRF LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JNK ABK. Wrote the paper: LRF JNK.