About the Authors

Ravindra Jadhav

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: R. J.–Piramal Pharma Solutions; R.G.M.–Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers University–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Ricardo Gallardo-Macias

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: R. J.–Piramal Pharma Solutions; R.G.M.–Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers University–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Gaurav Kumar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Samer S. Daher

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers University–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Amit Kaushik

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Kristina M. Bigelow

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Eric L. Nuermberger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

freundjs@rutgers.edu (JSF); gyanu@jhu.edu (GL); enuermb@jhmi.edu (ELN)

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Gyanu Lamichhane

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

freundjs@rutgers.edu (JSF); gyanu@jhu.edu (GL); enuermb@jhmi.edu (ELN)

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Joel S. Freundlich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

freundjs@rutgers.edu (JSF); gyanu@jhu.edu (GL); enuermb@jhmi.edu (ELN)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers University–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine and the Ruy V. Lourenço Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University—New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: the authors declare that a United States patent (US10,695,322) has been granted, including J.S.F., G.L., and A.K. as inventors, relevant to the carbapenems disclosed herein. Novel Inhibitors of Bacterial Growth, U.S. Patent 10,695,322, issued June 30, 2020, Assignees: The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ), Inventors: Gyanu Lamichhane (Towson, MD), Craig A. Townsend (Baltimore, MD), Evan Lloyd (Bunker Hill, WV), Amit Kaushik (Baltimore, MD), Pankaj Kumar (Baltimore, MD), Joel Freundlich (Princeton, NJ), Shaogang Li (Newark, NJ), Sean Ekins (Fuquay Varina, NC), Nicole Parrish (Bunker Hilol, WV. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.