About the Authors

Sujata Halder

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Susan Cotmore

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jamie Heimburg-Molinaro

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

David F. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Richard D. Cummings

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xi Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Alana J. Trollope

Current address: ViaLactia Biosciences, Auckland, New Zealand

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Simon J. North

Current address: SGS M-Scan Ltd.,Wokingham, United Kingdom

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Stuart M. Haslam

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Anne Dell

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter Tattersall

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Robert McKenna

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mavis Agbandje-McKenna

mckenna@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAM DFS AD SMH. Performed the experiments: SH JHM SC PT AJT SJN. Analyzed the data: SH JHM DFS RDC AD SMH AJT SJN MAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH SC JHM DFS RDC XC AJT SJN SMH AD PT RM MAM. Wrote the paper: SH SC DFS RDC SMH AD PT MAM.