About the Authors

Stella M. Valenzuela

Stella.Valenzuela@uts.edu.au

Affiliation School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Heba Alkhamici

Affiliation School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Louise J. Brown

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Oscar C. Almond

Affiliation School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sophia C. Goodchild

Current address: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sonia Carne

Affiliations School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Surgical Diagnostics Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Paul M. G. Curmi

Affiliations School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Applied Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stephen A. Holt

Affiliation Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bruce A. Cornell

Affiliation Surgical Diagnostics Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

Sonia Carne and Bruce A. Cornell are employed by Surgical Diagnostics Pty Ltd. who provided lipids for this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMV SAH BAC LJB. Performed the experiments: HA OCA SC SAH BAC SMV. Analyzed the data: BAC HA OCA SC SAH SMV LJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCG BAC PMGC SMV LJB SAH. Wrote the paper: SMV.