About the Authors

Michael C. Cavalier

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael C. Cavalier, Young-Sun Yim

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Young-Sun Yim

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael C. Cavalier, Young-Sun Yim

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Shumpei Asamizu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

David Neau

Affiliation NE-CAT, Cornell University, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Khaled H. Almabruk

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Taifo Mahmud

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Yong-Hwan Lee

yhlee@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCC YSY SA DN KHA TM YHL. Performed the experiments: MCC YSY DN YHL. Analyzed the data: MCC YSY DN TM YHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCC YSY SA DN KHA TM YHL. Wrote the paper: MCC TM YHL.