About the Authors
- Qiuyan Wang
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Bidhan A. Shinkre
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Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biochemistry and Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Jin-gu Lee
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Marc A. Weniger
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Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Yanfen Liu
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Weiping Chen
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Affiliation The Genomics Core Laboratory, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Adrian Wiestner
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Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- William C. Trenkle
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Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biochemistry and Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Yihong Ye
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* E-mail: yihongy@mail.nih.gov
Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: based on the work presented here, the National Institutes of Health have submitted a patent application for the described bifunctional compounds. Several of the authors (Q.W., A.W., W.T., and Y.Y.) are named as inventors on this patent application.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: QW WT AW YY. Performed the experiments: QW BS JL YL MW. Analyzed the data: QW WT WC AW YY. Wrote the paper: YY.