About the Authors

Ying Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Wang, Wenli Gao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Wenli Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Wang, Wenli Gao

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yuri V. Svitkin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Annie Pei-Chun Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yung-Chi Cheng

yccheng@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

A patent application was filed for the potential use of DCB-3503 for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases with Yung-Chi Cheng as co-inventor. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW WG YCC. Performed the experiments: YW WG APCC. Analyzed the data: YW WG YVS YCC. Wrote the paper: YW WG YCC.