About the Authors

Lili Mao

Current address: Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Jun Wang

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

William F. DeGrado

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Masayori Inouye

inouye@cabm.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM JW WFD MI. Performed the experiments: LM JW. Analyzed the data: LM JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM JW WFD MI. Wrote the paper: LM MI. Revised the final manuscript: LM JW WFD MI.