About the Authors

Bo Yeong Jeong

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Yeong Jeong, Md Jamal Uddin

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120–750, Korea

Md Jamal Uddin

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Yeong Jeong, Md Jamal Uddin

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120–750, Korea

Jong Hee Park

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120–750, Korea

Jung Hwa Lee

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120–750, Korea

Hi Bahl Lee

Affiliation Kim’s Clinic and Dialysis Unit, Myrang, Korea

Toshio Miyata

Affiliation Center for Translational and Advanced Research, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Hunjoo Ha

hha@ewha.ac.kr

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120–750, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HBL HH TM. Performed the experiments: BYJ JHP JHL. Analyzed the data: MJU BYJ. Wrote the paper: MJU. Contributed to approval of the final version of the manuscript: HH. Synthesized/supplied TM5275 and TM5441: TM.