About the Authors

Anuradha Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuradha Kumar, Meng Zhang

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Meng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuradha Kumar, Meng Zhang

Affiliation The National Center for Drug Screening and State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

Linyun Zhu

Affiliation The National Center for Drug Screening and State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

Reiling P. Liao

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Charles Mutai

a Current address: Center of Traditional Medicine and Drug Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Affiliation The National Center for Drug Screening and State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

Shittu Hafsat

b Current address: National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Federal Ministry of Health, Idu Industrial Area, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria

Affiliation The National Center for Drug Screening and State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

David R. Sherman

david.sherman@seattlebiomed.org (DRS); wangmw@mail.shcnc.ac.cn (MWW)

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ming-Wei Wang

david.sherman@seattlebiomed.org (DRS); wangmw@mail.shcnc.ac.cn (MWW)

Affiliation The National Center for Drug Screening and State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK RPL DRS MWW. Performed the experiments: AK MZ RPL LZ CM SH. Analyzed the data: AK MZ DRS MWW. Wrote the paper: AK MZ DRS MWW.