About the Authors

Derrick K. Mathias

Contributed equally to this work with: Derrick K. Mathias, Rebecca Pastrana-Mena

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rebecca Pastrana-Mena

Contributed equally to this work with: Derrick K. Mathias, Rebecca Pastrana-Mena

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elisabetta Ranucci

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Dingyin Tao

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Paolo Ferruti

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Corrie Ortega

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory O. Staples

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph Zaia

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eizo Takashima

Affiliation Division of Malaria Research, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

Takafumi Tsuboi

Affiliation Division of Malaria Research, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

Natalie A. Borg

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Luisella Verotta

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Rhoel R. Dinglasan

rdinglas@jhsph.edu

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKM RPM ER DT JZ TT LV RRD. Performed the experiments: DKM RPM DT ER CO PF ET GOS NAB RRD. Analyzed the data: DKM RPM DT GOS JZ TT NAB LV RRD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER JZ TT LV. Wrote the paper: DKM RPM DT CO JZ TT NAB LV RRD.