About the Authors

Ling Meng

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Kwame Sefah

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Meghan B. O'Donoghue

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Guizhi Zhu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dihua Shangguan

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Afshan Noorali

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yan Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Lei Zhou

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Weihong Tan

tan@chem.ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center and Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM DS LZ WT. Performed the experiments: LM KS GZ DS AN. Analyzed the data: LM YC LZ WT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM KS MBO GZ DS AN YC WT. Wrote the paper: LM LZ WT.