About the Authors

Tatiana Ammosova

Affiliations Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, RCMI Proteomics Core Facility, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yuri Obukhov

Affiliations Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, RCMI Proteomics Core Facility, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Alexander Kotelkin

Affiliation Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Denitra Breuer

Affiliations Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Monique Beullens

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Victor R. Gordeuk

Affiliation Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Mathieu Bollen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Sergei Nekhai

snekhai@howard.edu

Affiliations Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, RCMI Proteomics Core Facility, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA YO AK DB SN. Performed the experiments: YO AK DB SN. Analyzed the data: TA YO M. Beullens M. Bollen SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Beullens M. Bollen. Wrote the paper: TA VRG M. Bollen SN.