About the Authors

Lisa Sharling

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Xiaoping Liu

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Deviprasad R. Gollapalli

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sushil K. Maurya

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lizbeth Hedstrom

Affiliations Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Boris Striepen

striepen@cb.uga.edu

Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Some of the authors of this paper are also listed on a patent application on the compounds described in this paper. The authors note that their primary goal in protecting the IP for the compounds is to ensure that they retain a chance to become actual drugs in the future. Unresolved IP often prevents further development of drugs. Nonetheless, the patent constitutes a potential competing interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS DRG LH BS. Performed the experiments: LS XL DRG. Analyzed the data: LS XL DRG LH BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRG SKM. Wrote the paper: LS LH BS.