About the Authors

Tomader Ali

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

George Kokotos

Affiliation Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Victoria Magrioti

Affiliation Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Robert N. Bone

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

James A. Mobley

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

William Hancock

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sasanka Ramanadham

sramvem@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR TA JAM RNB WH. Performed the experiments: TA JAM. Analyzed the data: TA SR JAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK VM RNB. Wrote the paper: SR TA GK JAM.