About the Authors

Amit K. Gandhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit K. Gandhi, Jigar V. Desai

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jigar V. Desai

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit K. Gandhi, Jigar V. Desai

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Mohini S. Ghatge

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Martino L. di Salvo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche and Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

Stefano Di Biase

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche and Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

Richmond Danso-Danquah

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Faik N. Musayev

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Roberto Contestabile

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche and Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

Verne Schirch

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Martin K. Safo

msafo@vcu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKS VS MLdS RC. Performed the experiments: AKG JVD MSG MLdS RD FNM SDB. Analyzed the data: MKS VS MLdS RC MSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKS MLdS RC. Wrote the paper: MKS VS MLdS RC MSG.