About the Authors

Tejas R. Karhadkar

Contributed equally to this work with: Tejas R. Karhadkar, Darrell Pilling

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Darrell Pilling

Contributed equally to this work with: Tejas R. Karhadkar, Darrell Pilling

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Richard H. Gomer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rgomer@tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Texas A&M University has a patent application on the use of SAP to treat cytokine storm and COVID-19-associated lung inflammation and lung damage. DP, TRK, and RHG are inventors on this patent application. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.