About the Authors

Lianyu Shan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lianyu Shan, Mojdeh Matloubi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Mojdeh Matloubi

Contributed equally to this work with: Lianyu Shan, Mojdeh Matloubi

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

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ifeoma Okwor

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sam Kung

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Mohamed Sadek Almiski

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sujata Basu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Depertment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Andrew Halayko

Roles Resources

Affiliation Depertment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Latifa Koussih

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Experimental Biology, Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Abdelilah S. Gounni

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Abdel.Gounni@umanitoba.ca

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.