About the Authors

Jerry Chao

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Taiyoon Lee

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America

E. Sally Ward

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Raimund J. Ober

raimund.ober@tamu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC RJO. Performed the experiments: JC TL. Analyzed the data: JC TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ESW RJO. Wrote the paper: JC TL ESW RJO.