About the Authors

Sarah A. Jenkins

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yi Xu

yxu@ibt.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAJ YX. Performed the experiments: SAJ YX. Analyzed the data: SAJ YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAJ YX. Wrote the paper: SAJ YX.