About the Authors

Tong Li

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Malgorzata B. Tracka

Affiliation Department of Formulation Sciences, MedImmune Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom

Shahid Uddin

Affiliation Department of Formulation Sciences, MedImmune Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jose Casas-Finet

Affiliation Analytical Biochemistry Department, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Donald J. Jacobs

djacobs1@uncc.edu (DJJ); drlivesa@uncc.edu (DRL)

Affiliation Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Dennis R. Livesay

djacobs1@uncc.edu (DJJ); drlivesa@uncc.edu (DRL)

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

A grant from MedImmune LLC provided support for Dr. Tong Li to work on this project in Dennis R. Livesay’s and Donald J. Jacobs' lab. Coauthors Malgorzata B. Tracka, Shahid Uddin and Jose Casas-Finet are all MedImmune employees.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRL DJJ. Performed the experiments: TL DRL DJJ. Analyzed the data: TL DRL DJJ. Wrote the paper: TL DRL DJJ MBT SU JCF.