About the Authors

Patrick Cherubin

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Maria Camila Garcia

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

David Curtis

Current address: Valencia College, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Christopher B. T. Britt

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

John W. Craft Jr

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Helen Burress

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Chris Berndt

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Srikar Reddy

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Jessica Guyette

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Tianyu Zheng

Affiliation NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Qun Huo

Affiliation NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Beatriz Quiñones

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America

James M. Briggs

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ken Teter

kteter@mail.ucf.edu

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BQ KT. Formal analysis: JWC QH JMB KT. Funding acquisition: KT. Investigation: PC MCG DC CBTB JWC HB CB SR JG TZ. Project administration: JWC QH JMB KT. Supervision: QH JMB KT. Validation: PC MCG DC CBTB JWC HB CB SR JG TZ. Visualization: JWC JG TZ KT. Writing – original draft: PC JWC KT. Writing – review & editing: PC JWC BQ JMB KT.