About the Authors
- Lisa Sharling
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Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Xiaoping Liu
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Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Deviprasad R. Gollapalli
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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
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Lizbeth Hedstrom
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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
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* E-mail: 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.