About the Authors

Nidhi Kapoor

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Santosh Pawar

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, VaxDesign Campus, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Tatiana D. Sirakova

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Chirajyoti Deb

Current address: Translational Medicine Research, APH Pediatric Specialty Diagnostics Lab, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando Health, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

William L. Warren

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, VaxDesign Campus, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

pk@ucf.edu

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared the affiliation of Santosh Pawar and William L. Warren to Sanofi Pasteur in the online manuscript form. Dr. William Warren is employed in Sanofi Pasteur; however, this work, supported by Department of Defense with P.E. Kolattukudy as the Principal Investigator, had nothing to do with the activities of Sanofi Pasteur and there are no financial or intellectual property arrangements with Sanofi Pasteur. Dr. Pawar moved on from Sanofi Pasteur to a non-profit Cancer Research Center. Thus, no conflict of interest exists in either case. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies and sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WLW PEK. Performed the experiments: NK SP. Analyzed the data: NK SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TDS CD. Wrote the paper: PEK NK SP WLW.