About the Authors

Megan Moerdyk-Schauwecker

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Sun-Il Hwang

Affiliation Proteomics Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Research, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Valery Z. Grdzelishvili

vzgrdzel@uncc.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM SH VZG. Performed the experiments: MM SH. Analyzed the data: MM SH VZG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM SH VZG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MM SH VZG.