About the Authors

Kishore V. L Parsa

Affiliation The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Latha P Ganesan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Murugesan V. S Rajaram

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mikhail A Gavrilin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ashwin Balagopal

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Nrusingh P Mohapatra

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mark D Wewers

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Larry S Schlesinger

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America , Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

John S Gunn

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Susheela Tridandapani

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tridandapani.2@osu.edu

Affiliations The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America , Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KVLP, LPG, MAG, and ST conceived and designed the experiments. KVLP, LPG, MVSR, AB, and ST performed the experiments. KVLP, LPG, MVSR, AB, LSS, and ST analyzed the data. MAG, NPM, MDW, LSS, and JSG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. KVLP and ST wrote the paper.