About the Authors

Elizabeth A. Rodkey

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth A. Rodkey, Marisa L. Winkler

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

Marisa L. Winkler

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth A. Rodkey, Marisa L. Winkler

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

Christopher R. Bethel

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

Sundar Ram Reddy Pagadala

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

robert.bonomo@va.gov (RAB); focco.vandenakker@case.edu (FVDA)

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

Focco van den Akker

robert.bonomo@va.gov (RAB); focco.vandenakker@case.edu (FVDA)

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: EAR MLW CRB RAB FVDA. Performed the experiments: EAR MLW CRB SRRP. Analyzed the data: EAR MLW CRB RAB FVDA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRRP JDB. Wrote the paper: EAR MLW JDB RAB FVDA.