About the Authors

Kwame Sefah

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ling Meng

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dalia Lopez-Colon

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Elizabeth Jimenez

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Chen Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Lab Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Weihong Tan

tan@chem.ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS WT. Performed the experiments: KS LM DLC EJ. Analyzed the data: KS LM DLC EJ CL WT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS LM CL. Wrote the paper: KS WT.