About the Authors

Magdalena Circu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

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

Reneau Castore

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Brian Latimer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Innovative North Louisiana Experimental Therapeutics program (INLET), Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Stephanie Shames

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Craig R. Roy

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ana-Maria Dragoi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America, Innovative North Louisiana Experimental Therapeutics program (INLET), Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Stanimir S. Ivanov

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

stanimir.ivanov@lsuhs.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests related to this research.