About the Authors

Stefanos Giannakopoulos

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

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Daniel P. Strange

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Boonyanudh Jiyarom

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Omar Abdelaal

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

Aaron W. Bradshaw

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Urology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Vivek R. Nerurkar

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Monika A. Ward

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Biogenesis Research, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jackson Bakse

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Biogenesis Research, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jonathan Yap

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Selena Vanapruks

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

William A. Boisvert

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Michelle D. Tallquist

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Cecilia Shikuma

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Hooman Sadri-Ardekani

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Urology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Philip Clapp

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Sean V. Murphy

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Saguna Verma

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

saguna@hawaii.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.