About the Authors

Soumya Jaganathan

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Peibin Yue

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

David C. Paladino

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Jelena Bogdanovic

Affiliations NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Qun Huo

Affiliations NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

James Turkson

james.turkson@.ucf.edu

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ QH JT. Performed the experiments: SJ PY DCP JB. Analyzed the data: SJ QH JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QH JT. Wrote the paper: SJ QH JT.