About the Authors

Naghmeh S. Sarraf

Contributed equally to this work with: Naghmeh S. Sarraf, Rong Shi

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Life Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Rong Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Naghmeh S. Sarraf, Rong Shi

Affiliation Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, et L'Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, et PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Laura McDonald

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Life Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Jason Baardsnes

Affiliation Life Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Linhua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Miroslaw Cygler

irena.ekiel@bri.nrc.ca (IE); miroslaw.cygler@usask.ca (MC)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Irena Ekiel

irena.ekiel@bri.nrc.ca (IE); miroslaw.cygler@usask.ca (MC)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Life Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IE MC NSS RS. Performed the experiments: NSS RS LM JB LZ. Analyzed the data: IE MC RS NSS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RS IE MC.