About the Authors

Mona N. Rahman

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Jason Z. Vlahakis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Dragic Vukomanovic

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Wallace Lee

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Walter A. Szarek

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Kanji Nakatsu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Zongchao Jia

jia@queensu.ca

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MNR JZV DV WAS KN ZJ. Performed the experiments: MNR JZV DV WL. Analyzed the data: MNR JZV DV WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WAS KN ZJ. Wrote the paper: MNR.