About the Authors

Barend Andre Stander

standerandre@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Fourie Joubert

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Chingkuang Tu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Katherine H. Sippel

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Robert McKenna

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Annie Margaretha Joubert

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJ FJ BAS KS CT RM. Performed the experiments: BAS KS CT. Analyzed the data: BAS KS CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ FJ BAS KS CT RM. Wrote the paper: BAS.