About the Authors

Christopher L. Colbert

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher L. Colbert, Nathalie Y. R. Agar, Pravindra Kumar

christopher.colbert@ndsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Nathalie Y. R. Agar

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher L. Colbert, Nathalie Y. R. Agar, Pravindra Kumar

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pravindra Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher L. Colbert, Nathalie Y. R. Agar, Pravindra Kumar

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Mathew N. Chakko

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Providence Hospital and Medical Centers, Southfield, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Sangita C. Sinha

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Justin B. Powlowski

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lindsay D. Eltis

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jeffrey T. Bolin

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC NA PK MC JP LE JB. Performed the experiments: CC NA PK MC SCS. Analyzed the data: CC NA PK JP LE JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC NA PK JP LE JB. Wrote the paper: CC NA PK JP LE JB SCS.