About the Authors

Wei Ke

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Priyaranjan Pattanaik

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher R. Bethel

Affiliation Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Anjaneyulu Sheri

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

John D. Buynak

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Robert A. Bonomo

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Focco van den Akker

focco.vandenakker@case.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WK PP CRB RAB FVDA. Performed the experiments: WK PP CRB. Analyzed the data: WK RAB FVDA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK PP CRB AS JDB. Wrote the paper: WK RAB FVDA.