About the Authors

Xiaona Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Qin Ni

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work

Affiliation Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Xiuxiu He

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jun Kong

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Soon-Mi Lim

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Garegin A. Papoian

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jerome P. Trzeciakowski

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Andreea Trache

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Yi Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yjiang12@gsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.