About the Authors

Yongli Hu

Affiliations Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Paul ThiamJoo Tan

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, National Public Health Laboratory, Communicable Disease Division, Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore

Tin Wee Tan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

J. Thomas August

asif@perdanauniversity.edu.my (AMK); taugust@jhmi.edu (JTA)

Affiliations Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Asif M. Khan

asif@perdanauniversity.edu.my (AMK); taugust@jhmi.edu (JTA)

Affiliations Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Supervised the research: AMK TWT JTA. Designed the software used for analysis: YH. Conceived the experiments: AMK JTA. Designed the experiments and analyses: YH AMK JTA. Performed the experiments: YH PTT. Analyzed the data: YH AMK. Wrote the paper: YH AMK JTA.