About the Authors

Rui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zhang, Myles M. Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, People’s Republic of China, Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Myles M. Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zhang, Myles M. Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

De’Jana Parker

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ronna E. Dornsife

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nathan Wymer

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Rob U. Onyenwoke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Vijay Sivaraman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

vijay.sivaraman@nccu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.