About the Authors

Zao Li

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Victor Venegas

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuji Nagaoka

Affiliation the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Shizenken, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Eri Morino

Affiliation the School of Pharmacy, Kanazawa University, Shizenken, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Prashant Raghavan

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anjon Audhya

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Yoshinobu Nakanishi

Affiliations the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Shizenken, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, the School of Pharmacy, Kanazawa University, Shizenken, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Shizenken, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Zheng Zhou

zhengz@bcm.tmc.edu

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ ZL VV. Performed the experiments: ZL VV YNag EM PR ZZ. Analyzed the data: ZL VV YNag EM YNak AA ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA YNak. Wrote the paper: ZL ZZ YNak AA.