About the Authors

Hee-Jeong Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America

Lydia Bogomolnaya

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Michael McClelland

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Helene Andrews-Polymenis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

handrews@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.