About the Authors

Wenyan Lu

Affiliation Drug Discovery Division, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Cuihong Lin

Affiliation Drug Discovery Division, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Michael J. Roberts

Affiliation Drug Development Division, Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

William R. Waud

Affiliation Drug Development Division, Department of Cancer Therapeutics, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Gary A. Piazza

Affiliation Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Yonghe Li

y.li@southernresearch.org

Affiliation Drug Discovery Division, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL MJR WRW GAP. Performed the experiments: WL CL YL MJR. Analyzed the data: YL CL MJR. Wrote the paper: YL MJR WRW GAP.