About the Authors

Shaoxiao Wang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Siyuan Zhang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America

Chuan Xu

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America

Addie Barron

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Floyd Galiano

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Dhaval Patel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Yong Joo Lee

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Guy A. Caldwell

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America

Kim A. Caldwell

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America

Stephan N. Witt

switt1@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SW YJL SNW. Formal analysis: SZ CX KAC SNW. Funding acquisition: GAC SNW. Investigation: SW SZ CX AB FG DP SNW. Supervision: GAC KAC SNW. Visualization: KAC SNW. Writing – original draft: SW SZ CX KAC SNW. Writing – review & editing: SW SZ CX GAC KAC SNW.