About the Authors

Jacob P. Bitoun

Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biology, School of Dentistry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Sumei Liao

Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biology, School of Dentistry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Xin Yao

Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biology, School of Dentistry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Gary G. Xie

Affiliation Biology and Bioinformatics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, United States of America

Zezhang T. Wen

zwen@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biology, School of Dentistry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPB ZTW. Performed the experiments: JPB SL XY GGX. Analyzed the data: JPB ZTW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GGX ZTW. Wrote the paper: JPB ZTW.