About the Authors

Rachana Pandey

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachana Pandey, Purushothaman Natarajan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, United States of America

Purushothaman Natarajan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachana Pandey, Purushothaman Natarajan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, United States of America, Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, United States of America

Umesh K. Reddy

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

ghankins@wvstateu.edu (GRH); ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR)

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, United States of America

Wei Du

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Cancer Center, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV, United States of America, Institute for Academic Medicine, Charleston, WV, United States of America

Cristian Sirbu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Cancer Center, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV, United States of America, Institute for Academic Medicine, Charleston, WV, United States of America

Moussa Sissoko

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Katmai Oncology Group, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

Gerald R. Hankins

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

ghankins@wvstateu.edu (GRH); ureddy@wvstateu.edu (UKR)

Affiliation Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.