About the Authors

Marwa Farrag

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

Affiliations Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Rohini Dwivedi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America

Poonam Sharma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Deepak Kumar

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Ritesh Tandon

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America, Center for Immunology and Microbial Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Vitor H. Pomin

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

vpomin@olemiss.edu

Affiliations Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design, writing, or decision of this manuscript.