About the Authors

Dheeraj Verma

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

Shuangxia Jin

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

Anderson Kanagaraj

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

Nameirakpam D. Singh

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

Jaiyanth Daniel

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

Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

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

Michael Miller

Affiliation Research Instrumentation Facility, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Henry Daniell

Henry.Daniell@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: DV SJ AK NDS JD PEK HD. Performed the experiments: DV SJ AK NDS JD MM. Analyzed the data: DV SJ AK NDS JD PEK MM HD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PEK. Wrote the paper: DV SJ AK NDS JD HD.