About the Authors

Piu Saha

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Beng San Yeoh

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rajbir Singh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Bhargavi Chandrasekar

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), UAS-GKVK Campus, Bellary Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Praveen Kumar Vemula

Affiliations Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), UAS-GKVK Campus, Bellary Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Ramalingaswami ReEntry Fellow, Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India

Bodduluri Haribabu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Matam Vijay-Kumar

mvk13@psu.edu (MVK); jvrao001@louisville.edu (VRJ)

‡ MVK and VRJ are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Venkatakrishna R. Jala

mvk13@psu.edu (MVK); jvrao001@louisville.edu (VRJ)

‡ MVK and VRJ are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VRJ MV-K PKV BH. Performed the experiments: PS BSY RS BC. Analyzed the data: VRJ MV-K PS RS PKV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VRJ MV-K PKV. Wrote the paper: VRJ MV-K PS PKV RS.