About the Authors

Ran Meng

Affiliations Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, New York, United States of America

Heng-Yuan Tang

Affiliation Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jennifer Westfall

Affiliation Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America

David London

Affiliation Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America

James H. Cao

Affiliation Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America

Shaker A. Mousa

Affiliations Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, New York, United States of America, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mary Luidens

Affiliations Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Aleck Hercbergs

Affiliation The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Faith B. Davis

Affiliation Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America

Paul J. Davis

Affiliations Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, New York, United States of America, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Hung-Yun Lin

ordwayst@gmail.com

Affiliations Ordway Signal Transduction, Albany, New York, United States of America, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYL. Performed the experiments: RM HYT JW DL JHC. Analyzed the data: RM HYT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAM ML AH. Wrote the paper: FBD PJD HYL.