About the Authors

Ramesh C. Nayak

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Shiva Keshava

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Charles T. Esmon

Affiliation Coagulation Biology Laboratory, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Usha R. Pendurthi

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

L. Vijaya Mohan Rao

Vijay.Rao@uthct.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Read the manuscript and provided the suggestions: RCN SK CTE URP. Conceived and designed the experiments: RCN URP LVMR. Performed the experiments: RCN SK. Analyzed the data: RCN SK LVMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTE URP. Wrote the paper: RCN LVMR.