About the Authors

Kathryn E. Shields

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David Ranava

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yongjun Tan

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Dapeng Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Program of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Mee-Ngan F. Yap

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

frances.yap@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.