About the Authors

Sandeep Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandeep Gupta, Clifford J. Steer

gupta024@gmail.com (SG); steer001@umn.edu (CJS)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Shunan Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Md. Joynal Abedin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Kajohnsak Noppakun

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lawrence Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Tarundeep Kaur

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Behzad Najafian

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Cecília M. P. Rodrigues

Affiliation Research Institute for Medicines and Pharmaceutical Sciences (iMed.UL), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Clifford J. Steer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandeep Gupta, Clifford J. Steer

gupta024@gmail.com (SG); steer001@umn.edu (CJS)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG CJS. Performed the experiments: SG SL MJA KN LW BN. Analyzed the data: SG SL MJA KN LW BN. Wrote the paper: SG SL. Read and edited the manuscript: TK CMPR CJS.