About the Authors

Huijun Zhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijun Zhi, Xin Guo, Yik-Khuan Ho

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Xin Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijun Zhi, Xin Guo, Yik-Khuan Ho

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology The Leroy T. Canoles Jr Cancer Research Center Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, VA, United States of America

Yik-Khuan Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijun Zhi, Xin Guo, Yik-Khuan Ho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Nagesh Pasupala

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Hampus Alexander Anders Engstrom

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology The Leroy T. Canoles Jr Cancer Research Center Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, VA, United States of America

Oliver John Semmes

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

semmesoj@evms.edu (OJS); chou-zen.giam@usuhs.edu (C-ZG)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology The Leroy T. Canoles Jr Cancer Research Center Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, VA, United States of America

Chou-Zen Giam

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

semmesoj@evms.edu (OJS); chou-zen.giam@usuhs.edu (C-ZG)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.