About the Authors

Minghua Nie

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yongming Xie

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joseph A. Loo

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Albert J. Courey

courey@chem.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN AJC. Performed the experiments: MN YX. Analyzed the data: MN YX JL AJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN YX JL AJC. Wrote the paper: MN AJC.