About the Authors

Zhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Shuang Ding

Affiliation Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Konstantin Kropachev

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jia Lei

Current address: 1 Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Shantu Amin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Suse Broyde

Affiliation Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Nicholas E. Geacintov

ng1@nyu.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NEG. Performed the experiments: ZL SD KK JL SA. Analyzed the data: NEG SB ZL SD KK JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA. Wrote the paper: NEG SB ZL SD.