About the Authors

Stanimir S. Ivanov

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

stanimir.ivanov@lsuhs.edu (SSI); anamaria.dragoi@lsuhs.edu (AMD)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center—Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Reneau Castore

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center—Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Maria Dolores Juarez Rodriguez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center—Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Magdalena Circu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center—Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Ana-Maria Dragoi

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

stanimir.ivanov@lsuhs.edu (SSI); anamaria.dragoi@lsuhs.edu (AMD)

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center—Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center—Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.