About the Authors

Dipanwita Mitra

Contributed equally to this work with: Dipanwita Mitra, Mohammad H. Hasan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Mohammad H. Hasan

Contributed equally to this work with: Dipanwita Mitra, Mohammad H. Hasan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

John T. Bates

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Michael A. Bierdeman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Dallas R. Ederer

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Rinkuben C. Parmar

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Lauren A. Fassero

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Quntao Liang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America, College of Biological Science and Engineering, University of Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Hong Qiu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Vaibhav Tiwari

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Fuming Zhang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Robert J. Linhardt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Joshua S. Sharp

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

Affiliation Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America

Lianchun Wang

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Ritesh Tandon

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

rtandon@umc.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.