About the Authors

Pei-Hsin Cheng

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Xiao-Mei Rao

Affiliation James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Kelly M. McMasters

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Heshan Sam Zhou

hszhou01@louisville.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PHC HSZ. Performed the experiments: PHC XMR. Analyzed the data: PHC XMR KMM HSZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PHC XMR KMM HSZ. Wrote the paper: PHC HSZ.