About the Authors

Ruben Ferreira

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IQAC-CSIC, CIBER-BBN Networking Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

Roberto Artali

Affiliation Scientia Advice di Roberto Artali, Lissone, Italy

Adam Benoit

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America

Raimundo Gargallo

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Ramon Eritja

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IQAC-CSIC, CIBER-BBN Networking Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

David M. Ferguson

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America

Yuk Y. Sham

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuk Y. Sham, Stefania Mazzini

Affiliation Center for Drug Design, Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America

Stefania Mazzini

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuk Y. Sham, Stefania Mazzini

stefania.mazzini@unimi.it

Affiliation Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DEFENS), Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

Dr. Roberto is affiliated with Scientia Advice for Artali but 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: SM RF DMF. Performed the experiments: SM RF AB RA YS. Analyzed the data: SM RF RG YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM DMF RE. Wrote the paper: SM RF YM RE.