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, Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Maxim Platonov

Affiliations ChemBio Center, National Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Venkat R. K. Yedavalli

Affiliation Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuri Obukhov

Affiliation RCMI Proteomics Core Facility, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Victor R. Gordeuk

Affiliations Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Sickle Cell Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kuan-Teh Jeang

Affiliation Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dmytro Kovalskyy

Affiliations ChemBio Center, National Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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 Medicine, 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 KTJ DK SN. Performed the experiments: TA VRKY YO SN. Analyzed the data: TA MP VRKY YO KTJ DK SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK. Wrote the paper: TA VRG KTJ DK SN.