About the Authors

Kishore Polireddy

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Ruochen Dong

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Peter R. McDonald

Affiliation High-Throughput Screening Core Facility, Structural Biology Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Tao Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Brendan Luke

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Ping Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Melinda Broward

Affiliation High-Throughput Screening Core Facility, Structural Biology Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Anuradha Roy

Affiliation High-Throughput Screening Core Facility, Structural Biology Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Qi Chen

qchen@kumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QC. Data curation: PM AR QC. Formal analysis: PM AR QC. Funding acquisition: QC. Investigation: KP RD PM TW BL PC MB AR QC. Methodology: KP RD PM TW BL PC MB AR. Project administration: MB. Resources: QC AR. Software: PM AR. Supervision: QC. Validation: KP RD TW BL PC QC. Writing – original draft: QC PM KP. Writing – review & editing: QC AR PM KP.