About the Authors

Alexander B. Taylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander B. Taylor, Livia Pica-Mattoccia

Affiliations Departments of Biochemistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, X-ray Crystallography Core Laboratory, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Livia Pica-Mattoccia

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander B. Taylor, Livia Pica-Mattoccia

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, CNR, Rome, Italy

Chiara M. Polcaro

Affiliation Institute of Chemical Methodologies, CNR, Rome, Italy

Enrica Donati

Affiliation Institute of Chemical Methodologies, CNR, Rome, Italy

Xiaohang Cao

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Annalisa Basso

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, CNR, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Guidi

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, CNR, Rome, Italy

Anastasia R. Rugel

Affiliations Departments of Biochemistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Stephen P. Holloway

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Timothy J. C. Anderson

Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

P. John Hart

pjh@biochem.uthscsa.edu (PJH); dcioli@ibc.cnr.it (DC); loverde@uthscsa.edu (PTL)

Affiliations Departments of Biochemistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, X-ray Crystallography Core Laboratory, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Donato Cioli

pjh@biochem.uthscsa.edu (PJH); dcioli@ibc.cnr.it (DC); loverde@uthscsa.edu (PTL)

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, CNR, Rome, Italy

Philip T. LoVerde

pjh@biochem.uthscsa.edu (PJH); dcioli@ibc.cnr.it (DC); loverde@uthscsa.edu (PTL)

Affiliations Departments of Biochemistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABT LPM CMP PJH DC PTL. Performed the experiments: ABT LPM CMP ED AB AG ARR XC SPH PJH DC PTL. Analyzed the data: ABT LPM CMP ED ARR PJH TJCA DC PTL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABT LPM CMP ED AB AG ARR XC SPH PJH TJCA DC PTL. Wrote the paper: ABT LPM CMP TJCA ARR TJCA JPH DC PTL.