About the Authors

Bagna Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bagna Bao, Kevin Groves

bagna.bao@perkinelmer.com

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin Groves

Contributed equally to this work with: Bagna Bao, Kevin Groves

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jun Zhang

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emma Handy

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Kennedy

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Garry Cuneo

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claudiu T. Supuran

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy

Wael Yared

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Milind Rajopadhye

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Peterson

Affiliation Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Nine of ten authors are employed by PerkinElmer. BB, KG, JZ, EH, PK, GC, WY, MR and JP are employed by PerkinElmer. The authors, including one author from the Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, receive no direct or indirect financial gain from publication of this research. PerkinElmer manufactures some of the technology used in this research and the agent HS680 is a proprietary material of PerkinElmer. 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: BB KG. Performed the experiments: BB KG JZ GC CS. Analyzed the data: BB KG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB EH KG PK WY. Wrote the paper: BB KG MR JP.