About the Authors

Farah El Najjar

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Nicolás Cifuentes-Muñoz

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jing Chen

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Haining Zhu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Ursula J. Buchholz

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carole L. Moncman

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Rebecca Ellis Dutch

rdutc2@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FEN NCM CLM RED. Formal analysis: FEN NCM JC HZ. Funding acquisition: HZ RED. Investigation: FEN NCM JC CLM. Methodology: FEN NCM HZ CLM RED. Project administration: RED. Resources: HZ UJB RED. Supervision: RED. Visualization: FEN NCM JC CLM RED. Writing – original draft: FEN RED. Writing – review & editing: FEN NCM JC HZ UJB CLM RED.