About the Authors

Ramyavardhanee Chandrasekaran

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Anne K. Kenworthy

Affiliations Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Epithelial Biology Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

D. Borden Lacy

borden.lacy@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Epithelial Biology Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, The Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RC AKK DBL. Data curation: RC. Formal analysis: RC AKK DBL. Funding acquisition: DBL. Investigation: RC. Methodology: RC AKK DBL. Project administration: DBL. Resources: RC AKK DBL. Supervision: DBL. Validation: RC AKK DBL. Visualization: RC. Writing – original draft: RC. Writing – review & editing: RC AKK DBL.