About the Authors

Mohamed I. Khalil

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, National Research Centre, El-Buhouth St., Cairo, Egypt

Canchai Yang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Lexi Vu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Smriti Chadha

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Harrison Nabors

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Craig Welbon

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Immunotherapies Group, Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Claire D. James

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Iain M. Morgan

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

William C. Spanos

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Immunotherapies Group, Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Dohun Pyeon

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

dpyeon@msu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.