About the Authors

Abdelkader E. Ashour

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdelkader E. Ashour, Shazia Jamal

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Shazia Jamal

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdelkader E. Ashour, Shazia Jamal

Affiliations John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Vino T. Cheryan

Affiliations John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Magesh Muthu

Affiliations John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Khairy M. A. Zoheir

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Cell Biology Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Ahmed M. Alafeefy

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Salman Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Adel R. Abd-Allah

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Edi Levi

Affiliation John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Adi L. Tarca

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Lisa A. Polin

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Arun K. Rishi

Rishia@Karmanos.org

Affiliations John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKR. Performed the experiments: AEA SJ VTC MM KMAZ ARA EL LAP. Analyzed the data: ALT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMA. Wrote the paper: AKR.