About the Authors

Ritesh Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ritesh Kumar, John Culver Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: IFF Health and Biosciences, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John Culver Taylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Ritesh Kumar, John Culver Taylor

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

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Antrix Jain

Roles Investigation

Affiliation MS Proteomics Core, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sung Yun Jung

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Victor Garza

Roles Data curation

Current address: Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yi Xu

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

yi-xu1@tamu.edu

Affiliations Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, UT Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.