About the Authors

Roberto Gedaly

rgeda2@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Roberto Galuppo

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Michael F. Daily

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Malay Shah

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Erin Maynard

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Changguo Chen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Xiping Zhang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky United States of America

Karyn A. Esser

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky United States of America

Donald A. Cohen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

B. Mark Evers

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jieyun Jiang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Brett T. Spear

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: R. Gedaly R. Galuppo MFD MS EM CC XZ KAE DAC BME JJ BTS. Performed the experiments: RGM CC XZ DAC JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAE CC XZ JJ DAC. Wrote the paper: R. Gedaly MFD MS EM BME BTS R. Galuppo CC.