About the Authors

Sambasivan Venkatasubramanian

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Rohan Dhiman

Current address: Department of Life Science, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Padmaja Paidipally

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Satyanarayana S. Cheekatla

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Deepak Tripathi

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Elwyn Welch

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Amy R. Tvinnereim

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Brenda Jones

Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dan Theodorescu

Affiliation University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Peter F. Barnes

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Ramakrishna Vankayalapati

krishna.vankayalapati@uthct.edu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV RD PP RV. Performed the experiments: SV RD PP ART SSC EW DT. Analyzed the data: SV RD PP RV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD RV BJ DT. Wrote the paper: SV RD PFB RV.