About the Authors

Ping Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Zhang, Matthias J. Knape

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Matthias J. Knape

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Zhang, Matthias J. Knape

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Lalima G. Ahuja

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Malik M. Keshwani

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Charles C. King

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mira Sastri

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Friedrich W. Herberg

herberg@uni-kassel.de (FWH); staylor@ucsd.edu (SST)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Susan S. Taylor

herberg@uni-kassel.de (FWH); staylor@ucsd.edu (SST)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ MJK FWH SST. Performed the experiments: PZ MJK LGA MMK CCK MS. Analyzed the data: PZ MJK LGA FWH SST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: PZ MJK FWH SST.