About the Authors

Priyanka Prakash

Contributed equally to this work with: Priyanka Prakash, Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad

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

Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad

Contributed equally to this work with: Priyanka Prakash, Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad

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

Alemayehu A. Gorfe

Alemayehu.G.Abebe@uth.tmc.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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