About the Authors

Michael T. Nanfara

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States of America

Vignesh M. P. Babu

Current address: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States of America

Mohamed A. Ghazy

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt

Mark D. Sutton

mdsutton@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VMPB MDS. Data curation: MTN VMPB MAG MDS. Formal analysis: MTN. Funding acquisition: MDS. Investigation: MTN VMPB MAG. Methodology: MTN VMPB MAG MDS. Project administration: MTN VMPB MAG MDS. Resources: MTN VMPB MAG. Supervision: MDS. Validation: MTN VMPB. Visualization: MTN MDS. Writing – original draft: MDS. Writing – review & editing: MTN VMPB MAG MDS.