About the Authors

Anup K. Kundu

akundu@xula.edu

Affiliations Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery, Xavier University College of Pharmacy, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Swathi V. Iyer

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Sruti Chandra

Affiliation Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Amit S. Adhikari

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Tomoo Iwakuma

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Tarun K. Mandal

Affiliation Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery, Xavier University College of Pharmacy, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AKK TKM TI. Data curation: AKK SVI SC ASA. Formal analysis: AK TI TKM SC. Funding acquisition: AK TI TKM. Investigation: AKK SVI ASA. Methodology: AKK SVI TI. Project administration: AKK TI. Resources: AKK TKM TI. Supervision: AKK TI. Validation: AKK TI TKM. Visualization: AKK TI TKM. Writing – original draft: AKK TI TKM. Writing – review & editing: AKK TI TKM.