About the Authors

Su-Lin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Su-Lin Lee, Chih-Chien Chou

Current address: Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Natural Products Chemistry Section, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Chih-Chien Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Su-Lin Lee, Chih-Chien Chou

Affiliation Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hsiao-Ching Chuang

Affiliation Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

En-Chi Hsu

Affiliation Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Po-Chen Chiu

Affiliation Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Samuel K. Kulp

Affiliation Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

John C. Byrd

Affiliations Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ching-Shih Chen

chen.844@osu.edu

Affiliations Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLL CCC SKK JCB CSC. Performed the experiments: SLL CCC HCC ECH PCC. Analyzed the data: SLL CCC HCC SKK JCB CSC. Wrote the paper: CSC SKK.