About the Authors

Kathleen C. Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen C. Brown, Ted R. Witte

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Ted R. Witte

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen C. Brown, Ted R. Witte

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

W. Elaine Hardman

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Haitao Luo

Affiliation Department of Biology, Alderson-Broaddus College, Phillipi, West Virginia, United States of America

Yi C. Chen

Affiliation Department of Biology, Alderson-Broaddus College, Phillipi, West Virginia, United States of America

A. Betts Carpenter

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Jamie K. Lau

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Piyali Dasgupta

dasgupta@marshall.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WEH PD. Performed the experiments: KCB TRW HL YCC JKL PD. Analyzed the data: KCB HL YCC ABC JKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WEH ABC. Wrote the paper: JKL PD.