About the Authors

Deepak Tripathi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Rajesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

Ramya Sivangala Thandi

Roles Data curation

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

Padmaja Paidipally

Roles Data curation

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

Kamakshi Prudhula Devalraju

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Venkata Sanjeev Kumar Neela

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Madeline Kay McAllister

Roles Data curation

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

Buka Samten

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Ramakrishna Vankayalapati

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

krishna.vankayalapati@uthct.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.