About the Authors

Goutam Mandal

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida, United States of America

Srotoswati Mandal

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida, United States of America

Mansi Sharma

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida, United States of America

Karen Santos Charret

Affiliation CHU de Quebec Research Center and Department of Microbiology-Infectious Disease and Immunology, University Laval, Quebec, Canada

Barbara Papadopoulou

Affiliation CHU de Quebec Research Center and Department of Microbiology-Infectious Disease and Immunology, University Laval, Quebec, Canada

Hiranmoy Bhattacharjee

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida, United States of America

Rita Mukhopadhyay

rmukhop@fiu.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM RM BP. Performed the experiments: GM SM MS. Analyzed the data: GM KSC BP HB RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP RM. Wrote the paper: GM KSC BP HB RM. None.