About the Authors

Wenshuo Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America

Michael Woodson

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Biswas Neupane

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Fengwei Bai

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

Michael B. Sherman

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Kyung H. Choi

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Girish Neelakanta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America

Hameeda Sultana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hsultana@odu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.