About the Authors

Swarna Mohan

Contributed equally to this work with: Swarna Mohan, Debamitra Das

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Debamitra Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Swarna Mohan, Debamitra Das

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert J. Bauer

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Annie Heroux

Affiliation Department of Biology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Jenna K. Zalewski

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Simone Heber

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Atinuke M. Dosunmu-Ogunbi

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael A. Trakselis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Hildebrand

jeffh@pitt.edu (JDH); andyv@pitt.edu (AV)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrew P. VanDemark

jeffh@pitt.edu (JDH); andyv@pitt.edu (AV)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT JH AV. Performed the experiments: SM DD RB AH JZ SH AD. Analyzed the data: SM DD RB JZ MT JH AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: SM JH AV.