About the Authors

Roman Dziarski

rdziar@iun.edu

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Shin Yong Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Shin Yong Park, Des Raj Kashyap

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Des Raj Kashyap

Contributed equally to this work with: Shin Yong Park, Des Raj Kashyap

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Affiliation MR DNA Molecular Research LP, Shallowater, Texas, United States of America

Dipika Gupta

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

SED is employed by MR DNA Molecular Research LP. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD DG. Performed the experiments: RD SYP DRK SED. Analyzed the data: RD SYP DRK SED DG. Wrote the paper: RD DG.