About the Authors

Sravan Kumar Patel

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yang Zhang

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John A. Pollock

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jelena M. Janjic

janjicj@duq.edu

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKP YZ JAP JMJ. Performed the experiments: SKP YZ JAP JMJ. Analyzed the data: SKP YZ JAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAP, JMJ. Wrote the paper: SKP JMJ.