About the Authors

Fong Wilson Lam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

flam@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cameron August Brown

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christian Valladolid

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dabel Cynthia Emebo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Timothy Gerald Palzkill

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Miguel Angel Cruz

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors (FWL, MAC) are inventors on a patent for recombinant human vimentin (US Patent #10,695,401). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials