About the Authors

Ruan Cox Jr.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Oluwakemi Phillips

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jutaro Fukumoto

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Itsuko Fukumoto

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Prasanna Tamarapu Parthasarathy

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Maria Mandry

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Young Cho

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Richard Lockey

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Narasaiah Kolliputi

nkollipu@health.usf.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK RC RL. Performed the experiments: RC OP JF IF PTP MM. Analyzed the data: NK RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK. Wrote the paper: RC YC.