About the Authors

Thomas S. Peat

tom.peat@csiro.au

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

David I. Rhodes

Current address: JDJ Bioservices Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Nick Vandegraaff

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Giang Le

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jessica A. Smith

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lisa J. Clark

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Eric D. Jones

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jonathan A. V. Coates

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Neeranat Thienthong

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Janet Newman

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Olan Dolezal

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Roger Mulder

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

John H. Ryan

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

G. Paul Savage

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Craig L. Francis

Affiliation CSIRO Materials, Science and Engineering, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

John J. Deadman

Current address: Chemocopeia Ltd, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Avexa Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

Parts of this study were completed while David I. Rhodes, Nick Vandegraaff, Giang Le, Jessica A. Smith, Lisa J. Clark, Eric D. Jones, Jonathan A.V. Coates, Neeranat Thienthon and John J. Deadman were employed by Avexa Ltd. The work was supported by a commercial ready grant COMO4229 from the Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to Avexa. In this study, Compounds 4–11 were designed at Avexa Ltd using the Accelrys Discovery suite. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TSP JJD DIR. Performed the experiments: TSP DIR NV GL JAS LJC EDJ NT JN OD RM JHR CLF JJD. Analyzed the data: TSP DIR JN JAVC OD RM JHR GPS JJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TSP DIR OD JN RM JJD. Wrote the paper: TSP OD JJD.