About the Authors

Yuan-Ping Pang

pang@mayo.edu (YPP); fredrik.ekstrom@foi.se (FE); brimijoi@mayo.edu (SB)

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

Fredrik Ekström

pang@mayo.edu (YPP); fredrik.ekstrom@foi.se (FE); brimijoi@mayo.edu (SB)

Affiliation Swedish Defence Research Agency, CBRN Defence and Security, Umeå, Sweden

Gregory A. Polsinelli

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

Sandeep Rana

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

Duy H. Hua

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

Björn Andersson

Affiliation Swedish Defence Research Agency, CBRN Defence and Security, Umeå, Sweden

Per Ola Andersson

Affiliation Swedish Defence Research Agency, CBRN Defence and Security, Umeå, Sweden

Lei Peng

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

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

Ann M. Fallon

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

David W. Ragsdale

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen Brimijoin

pang@mayo.edu (YPP); fredrik.ekstrom@foi.se (FE); 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 FJE SB. Performed the experiments: YPP FJE GAP YG SR BA POA LP SKS SB. Analyzed the data: YPP FJE GAP YG SR DH BA POA LP SKS RKM SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KYZ AF DWR. Wrote the paper: YPP FJE POA SB. Contributed with revisions: GAP YG SR DH LP SKS RKM KYZ AF DWR.