About the Authors

Ian Tietjen

itietjen@mail.ubc.ca (IT)

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Fidele Ntie-Kang

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Chemical and Bioactivity Information Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Philip Mwimanzi

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Pascal Amoa Onguéné

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Margaret A. Scull

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Thomas Oyebode Idowu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Abiodun Oguntuga Ogundaini

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Luc Mbaze Meva’a

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Berhanu M. Abegaz

Affiliation African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya

Charles M. Rice

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Kerstin Andrae-Marobela

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

Mark A. Brockman

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Zabrina L. Brumme

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, BC, Canada

David Fedida

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IT MAB ZLB DF CMR. Performed the experiments: IT PM MS KAM TOI AOO BMA FNK PAO LMM. Analyzed the data: IT KAM TOI AOO BMA FNK PAO LMM MS MAB ZLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAM TOI AOO BMA FNK PM. Wrote the paper: IT MAB ZLB DF.