About the Authors

Jason R. Devlin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

William Santus

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jorge Mendez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wenjing Peng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Aiying Yu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Junyao Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Xiomarie Alejandro-Navarreto

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kaitlyn Kiernan

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Manmeet Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Peilin Jiang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Yehia Mechref

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Judith Behnsen

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

jbehnsen@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.