About the Authors

Amaly Nokkari

amalyn.breizh@gmail.com (AN); firasko@gmail.com (FK); wa12@aub.edu.lb (WAK)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Tarek H. Mouhieddine

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Muhieddine M. Itani

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Saint George University of London, Nicosia, Cyprus

Wassim Abou-Kheir

amalyn.breizh@gmail.com (AN); firasko@gmail.com (FK); wa12@aub.edu.lb (WAK)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Georges Daoud

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rui Zhu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Yehia Meshref

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Jihane Soueid

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Moustafa Al Hariri

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Stefania Mondello

Affiliation University of Messina, Department of Neurosciences, Messina, Italy

Ayad A. Jaffa

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Firas Kobeissy

amalyn.breizh@gmail.com (AN); firasko@gmail.com (FK); wa12@aub.edu.lb (WAK)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN FK. Performed the experiments: AN TM MI WAK GD RZ JS. Analyzed the data: AN FK YM SM RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK AJ WAK GD YM MAH. Wrote the paper: AN TM MI FK WAK GD YM AJ RZ SM.