About the Authors

Yuan-Ping Pang

pang@mayo.edu (YP); brimijoi@mayo.edu (SB)

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Sanjay K. Singh

Current address: Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Yang Gao

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

T. Leon Lassiter

Current address: Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Rajesh K. Mishra

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kun Yan Zhu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Stephen Brimijoin

pang@mayo.edu (YP); brimijoi@mayo.edu (SB)

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

YPP is the inventor of a pending patent application titled “Invertebrate Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors.”

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPP SKS SB. Performed the experiments: YPP SKS YG TLL RKM. Analyzed the data: YPP SKS YG TLL RKM SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ. Wrote the paper: YPP SKS RKM KZ SB.