About the Authors

John O. Suberu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Alexander P. Gorka

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Lauren Jacobs

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Paul D. Roepe

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Neil Sullivan

Affiliation Sensapharm Ltd, Business and Innovation Centre, Sunderland, United Kingdom

Guy C. Barker

Contributed equally to this work with: Guy C. Barker, Alexei A. Lapkin

guy.barker@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Alexei A. Lapkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Guy C. Barker, Alexei A. Lapkin

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS GB AL PR. Performed the experiments: JS AG LJ. Analyzed the data: JS AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS. Wrote the manuscript: JS GB AL.