About the Authors

Maria Shabbir

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Deeba N. Syed

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Rahul K. Lall

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Muhammad Rashid Khan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Hasan Mukhtar

hmukhtar@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS DNS. Performed the experiments: MS RKL. Analyzed the data: MS DNS RKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRK HM. Wrote the paper: MS DNS RKL.