About the Authors

Satish Srinivasan

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph Spear

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Karunakaran Chandran

Current address: Biomedical Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadar's Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, and Center for Free Radical Biology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Joy Joseph

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, and Center for Free Radical Biology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Balaraman Kalyanaraman

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, and Center for Free Radical Biology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Narayan G. Avadhani

narayan@vet.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests in this work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS NGA. Performed the experiments: SS JS KC. Analyzed the data: SS NGA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BK JJ. Wrote the manuscript: SS NGA.