About the Authors

Kotohiko Kimura

Affiliation Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ru Chih C. Huang

rhuang@jhu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Ru Chih C. Huang is a principal inventor and Kotohiko Kimura is an inventor of a patent application "Termeprocol with 7-Hydroxystaurosporine" (PCT WO 2011/103586 A2 - patent allowed 01 April 2015). Dr. Huang is also a principal inventor of several JHU patents on M4N. JHU has leased the drug (M4N, Terameprocol) related patents, but not this PCT WO 2011/103586 A2 to Erimos Pharmaceuticals until 2017. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK RCH. Performed the experiments: KK RCH. Analyzed the data: KK RCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK RCH. Wrote the paper: KK RCH.