About the Authors

Ai-Ling Lin

lina3@uthscsa.edu (ALL); shaohua.yang@unthsc.edu (SHY); duongt@uthscsa.edu (TD)

Affiliations Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ethan Poteet

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Fang Du

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Roy C. Gourav

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Ran Liu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Yi Wen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Andrew Bresnen

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shiliang Huang

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Peter T. Fox

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shao-Hua Yang

lina3@uthscsa.edu (ALL); shaohua.yang@unthsc.edu (SHY); duongt@uthscsa.edu (TD)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Timothy Q. Duong

lina3@uthscsa.edu (ALL); shaohua.yang@unthsc.edu (SHY); duongt@uthscsa.edu (TD)

Affiliations Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The University of North Texas Health Science Center has filed a PCT patent application entitled “Compounds that enable alternative mitochondrial electron transfer”. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALL TD SHY RL YW. Performed the experiments: ALL FD SH EP RG. Analyzed the data: ALL AB SHY RL YW EP RG. Wrote the paper: ALL TD PF SHY EP. Interpreted the data: ALL TD PF SHY RL YW.