About the Authors

Ashutosh Arun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kayla J. Rayford

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ayorinde Cooley

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Tanu Rana

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Professional Medical Education and Molecular Biology Core Facility, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Girish Rachakonda

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Fernando Villalta

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Siddharth Pratap

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Maria F. Lima

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, The City College of New York, New York, United States of America

Nader Sheibani

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Pius N. Nde

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pnde@mmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.