About the Authors

Jing Tang

Affiliation Computer-Aided Molecular Design Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jewn Giew Park

Affiliation Computer-Aided Molecular Design Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Charles B. Millard

Affiliation Division of Biochemistry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

James J. Schmidt

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: james.schmidt@det.amedd.army.mil (JS); pang@mayo.edu (Y-PP)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Yuan-Ping Pang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: james.schmidt@det.amedd.army.mil (JS); pang@mayo.edu (Y-PP)

Affiliation Computer-Aided Molecular Design Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

TJ, JGP, CBM, JJS and YPP have filed a PCT application for the inhibitors described in this paper.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YP JT JP CM JS. Performed the experiments: YP JT JP JS. Analyzed the data: YP JT JP CM JS. Wrote the paper: YP JT JP CM JS.