About the Authors

Qiuyan Wang

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

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

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

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yanfen Liu

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

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

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

William C. Trenkle

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

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.