About the Authors

Heba Abdelwahab

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Damietta, 34517, Egypt

Julia S. Martin Del Campo

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America, Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America

Yumin Dai

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America

Camelia Adly

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Damietta, 34517, Egypt

Sohby El-Sohaimy

Affiliation Department of Food Technology, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute, City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Alexandria, 21934, Egypt

Pablo Sobrado

psobrado@vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America, Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America, Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HA PS. Formal analysis: HA PS. Funding acquisition: HA CA SES PS. Investigation: HA YD JSM. Methodology: HA PS JSM YD. Project administration: PS. Supervision: PS. Visualization: HA PS. Writing – original draft: HA PS. Writing – review & editing: HA PS.