About the Authors

Jaiyanth Daniel

jadaniel@mail.ucf.edu (JD); pk@mail.ucf.edu (PEK)

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Hédia Maamar

Contributed equally to this work with: Hédia Maamar, Chirajyoti Deb

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Chirajyoti Deb

Contributed equally to this work with: Hédia Maamar, Chirajyoti Deb

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Tatiana D. Sirakova

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

jadaniel@mail.ucf.edu (JD); pk@mail.ucf.edu (PEK)

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD PEK. Performed the experiments: JD HM CD TDS. Analyzed the data: JD HM CD TDS PEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PEK. Wrote the paper: JD HM CD PEK.