About the Authors

Siva K. Gandhapudi

Affiliation Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Paula M. Chilton

Affiliation Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Thomas C. Mitchell

tom.mitchell@louisville.edu

Affiliations Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKG PMC TCM. Performed the experiments: SKG PMC. Analyzed the data: SKG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKG PMC. Wrote the paper: SKG TCM.