About the Authors

Maheshwor Timilshina

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Youra Kang

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Ishmit Dahal

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Zhiwei You

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Tae-gyu Nam

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy and Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Hanyang University, Ansan, Republic of Korea

Keuk-Jun Kim

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, Daekyeung College, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Byeong-Seon Jeong

Contributed equally to this work with: Byeong-Seon Jeong, Jae-Hoon Chang

jchang@yu.ac.kr (JC); jeongb@ynu.ac.kr (BJ)

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Jae-Hoon Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Byeong-Seon Jeong, Jae-Hoon Chang

jchang@yu.ac.kr (JC); jeongb@ynu.ac.kr (BJ)

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have applied for the patent of the compound BJ-3105. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JHC. Data curation: MT. Formal analysis: MT. Funding acquisition: JHC. Investigation: MT YK ID ZY KJK. Methodology: JHC MT. Project administration: JHC. Resources: JHC BSJ TGT. Software: MT. Supervision: JHC. Validation: JHC. Visualization: JHC. Writing – original draft: MT. Writing – review & editing: JHC BSJ.