About the Authors

Vu H. Le

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Narayana Nagesh

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Edwin A. Lewis

ELewis@chemistry.msstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VHL NN EAL. Performed the experiments: VHL NN. Analyzed the data: VHL NN EAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAL. Wrote the manuscript: VHL NN EAL.