About the Authors

Kai Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Tai L. Guo

Current address: Department of Anatomy and Radiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Nitai C. Hait

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jeremy Allegood

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Hardik I. Parikh

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Wenfang Xu

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Glen E. Kellogg

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Steven Grant

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Sarah Spiegel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Shijun Zhang

szhang2@vcu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, 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: SS SZ. Performed the experiments: KL TLG NH HP JA. Analyzed the data: WX GEK SG. Wrote the paper: KL GEK SS SZ.