About the Authors

Deepak Tripathi

Contributed equally to this work with: Deepak Tripathi, Elwyn Welch, Satyanarayana Swamy Cheekatla, Rajesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Elwyn Welch

Contributed equally to this work with: Deepak Tripathi, Elwyn Welch, Satyanarayana Swamy Cheekatla, Rajesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Satyanarayana Swamy Cheekatla

Contributed equally to this work with: Deepak Tripathi, Elwyn Welch, Satyanarayana Swamy Cheekatla, Rajesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biotechnology, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) Institute of Science, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Rajesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Deepak Tripathi, Elwyn Welch, Satyanarayana Swamy Cheekatla, Rajesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Sambasivan Venkatasubramanian

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Padmaja Paidipally

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Abhinav Van

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Buka Samten

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Kamakshi P. Devalraju

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Center, Hyderabad, India

Venkata Sanjeev Kumar Neela

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Center, Hyderabad, India

Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Center, Hyderabad, India

Carol Mason

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Steve Nelson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ramakrishna Vankayalapati

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

krishna.vankayalapati@uthct.edu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.