About the Authors

Bruno Pagano

Affiliations King’s College London, School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry & Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, London, United Kingdom, Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy

Abdullah Jama

Affiliation Institute for Pharmaceutical Science, London, United Kingdom

Pierre Martinez

Affiliation King’s College London, School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry & Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, London, United Kingdom

Ester Akanho

Affiliation Institute for Pharmaceutical Science, London, United Kingdom

Tam T. T. Bui

Affiliation Institute for Pharmaceutical Science, London, United Kingdom

Alex F. Drake

Affiliation Institute for Pharmaceutical Science, London, United Kingdom

Franca Fraternali

penka.nikolova@kcl.ac.uk (PN), franca.fraternali@kcl.ac.uk (FF)

Affiliation King’s College London, School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry & Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, London, United Kingdom

Penka V. Nikolova

penka.nikolova@kcl.ac.uk (PN), franca.fraternali@kcl.ac.uk (FF)

Affiliation Institute for Pharmaceutical Science, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Dr. Franca Fraternali is a PLOS ONE editorial Board member. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PN FF BP. Performed the experiments: AJ EA TB PM BP. Analyzed the data: PN BP FF AD TB. Wrote the manuscript: PN FF BP.