About the Authors

Mennatallah M. Y. Albarqi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mennatallah M. Y. Albarqi, Jonathan D. Stoltzfus

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Jonathan D. Stoltzfus

Contributed equally to this work with: Mennatallah M. Y. Albarqi, Jonathan D. Stoltzfus

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Adeiye A. Pilgrim

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Thomas J. Nolan

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhu Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Steven A. Kliewer

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

David J. Mangelsdorf

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

James B. Lok

jlok@vet.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDS JBL. Performed the experiments: MMYA JDS AAP TJN JBL. Analyzed the data: JDS ZW SAK DJM JBL. Wrote the paper: MYYA JDS AAP TJN ZW SAK DJM JBL.