About the Authors

Annamarie C. Dalton

Affiliation Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Richmond, Virginia, 23298, United States of America

Tomer Shlamkovitch

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Biotechnology Engineering and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel

Niv Papo

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Biotechnology Engineering and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel

William A. Barton

william.barton@vcuhealth.org

Affiliation Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Richmond, Virginia, 23298, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ACD WAB. Funding acquisition: ACD WAB. Investigation: ACD TS WAB. Methodology: ACD WAB. Project administration: WAB. Resources: ACD TS NP WAB. Supervision: WAB. Validation: ACD WAB. Writing – original draft: ACD WAB. Writing – review & editing: ACD TS NP WAB.