About the Authors

Priyanka Prakash

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad

Current address: Physics Department, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Alemayehu A. Gorfe

Alemayehu.G.Abebe@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Membrane Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAG. Performed the experiments: PP ASA AAG. Analyzed the data: PP ASA AAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP ASA AAG. Wrote the paper: PP AAG.