About the Authors

Moustafa Al Hariri

Contributed equally to this work with: Moustafa Al Hariri, Mohamad Elmedawar, Ayad A. Jaffa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Mohamad Elmedawar

Contributed equally to this work with: Moustafa Al Hariri, Mohamad Elmedawar, Ayad A. Jaffa

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rui Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Memorial Circle & Boston, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Miran A. Jaffa

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Epidemiology and Population Health Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Jingfu Zhao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Memorial Circle & Boston, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Parvin Mirzaei

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Memorial Circle & Boston, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Adnan Ahmed

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology & Genomics, Texas Tech University, Canton & Main, Experimental Sciences building, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Firas Kobeissy

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Fuad N. Ziyadeh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Yehia Mechref

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Memorial Circle & Boston, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Ayad A. Jaffa

Contributed equally to this work with: Moustafa Al Hariri, Mohamad Elmedawar, Ayad A. Jaffa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

aj24@aub.edu.lb

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.