About the Authors

Ritesh Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ritesh Kumar, Jennifer L. Herold

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer L. Herold

Contributed equally to this work with: Ritesh Kumar, Jennifer L. Herold

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Deborah Schady

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer Davis

Affiliations Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Epidemiology, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Scott Kopetz

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Margarita Martinez-Moczygemba

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Barbara E. Murray

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fang Han

Affiliation Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Yu Li

Affiliation Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Evelyn Callaway

Affiliation Program in Integrative Nutrition and Complex Diseases, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Robert S. Chapkin

Affiliation Program in Integrative Nutrition and Complex Diseases, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Wan-Mohaiza Dashwood

Affiliation Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Roderick H. Dashwood

Affiliation Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tia Berry

Affiliation Center for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chris Mackenzie

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Microbial Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yi Xu

yxu@ibt.tamhsc.edu

Affiliations Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RK JLH YX CM. Funding acquisition: YX. Investigation: RK JLH DS. Methodology: RK JLH FH YX EC RSC WMD RHD CM TB. Project administration: RK YX. Resources: RK JLH YX JD SK MMM BEM. Supervision: YX RK. Visualization: RK YX. Writing – original draft: RK JLH YX. Writing – review & editing: RK YX JD SK MMM BEM YL EC RSC WMD RHD CM.