About the Authors

William T. Berger

Contributed equally to this work with: William T. Berger, Brian P. Ralph, Martin Kaczocha

Affiliation Chemistry and the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Brian P. Ralph

Contributed equally to this work with: William T. Berger, Brian P. Ralph, Martin Kaczocha

Affiliation Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Martin Kaczocha

Contributed equally to this work with: William T. Berger, Brian P. Ralph, Martin Kaczocha

Affiliation Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Jing Sun

Affiliation Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Trent E. Balius

Affiliation Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Robert C. Rizzo

Affiliation Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Samir Haj-Dahmane

Affiliation Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Iwao Ojima

Iwao.Ojima@stonybrook.edu (IO); Dale.Deutsch@stonybrook.edu (DGD)

Affiliation Chemistry and the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Dale G. Deutsch

Iwao.Ojima@stonybrook.edu (IO); Dale.Deutsch@stonybrook.edu (DGD)

Affiliation Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGD IO RCR MK. Performed the experiments: BPR MK WTB SH TEB JS. Analyzed the data: DGD BR MK IO WTB RCR SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DGD MK IO RCR SH. Wrote the paper: DGD WB BPR MK IO JS RCR SH.