About the Authors

Hyun Lee

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tian Zhu

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kavankumar Patel

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yan-Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lena Truong

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kirk E. Hevener

Current address: Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Idaho State University, Meridian, Idaho, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joseph L. Gatuz

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gitanjali Subramanya

Current address: Department of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hyun-Young Jeong

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Susan L. Uprichard

Current address: Department of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael E. Johnson

mjohnson@uic.edu

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL HJ SLU MEJ. Performed the experiments: HL TZ KP YZ LT JLG GS. Analyzed the data: HL TZ YZ KEH HJ SLU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL TZ YZ KP LT JLG GS. Wrote the paper: HL TZ KEH HJ SLU MEJ.