About the Authors

Erin E. Martinez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Philip D. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Monica Logan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Sarki A. Abdulkadir

sarki.abdulkadir@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAA EEM. Performed the experiments: EEM PDA ML. Analyzed the data: EEM PDA ML SAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAA. Wrote the paper: EEM SAA.