About the Authors

Tatyana Mamonova

tbm7@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qiangmin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jahan Ali Khajeh

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, Chemistry and Biochemistry PhD program, CUNY, New York, New York, United States of America

Zimei Bu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Alessandro Bisello

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter A. Friedman

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM PAF AB ZB. Performed the experiments: TM QZ AB JAK. Analyzed the data: TM PAF AB JAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ. Wrote the paper: TM PAF ZB.