About the Authors

Ilangovan Raju

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilangovan Raju, Krishnaswamy Kannan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Krishnaswamy Kannan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilangovan Raju, Krishnaswamy Kannan

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Edathara C. Abraham

AbrahamEdatharaC@uams.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Abraham is a PLOS ONE editorial board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECA IR KK. Performed the experiments: IR. Analyzed the data: IR ECA KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IR KK. Wrote the paper: IR KK ECA.