About the Authors

Ian R. Lanza

Affiliation Endocrinology Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Shucha Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shucha Zhang, Lawrence E. Ward

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lawrence E. Ward

Contributed equally to this work with: Shucha Zhang, Lawrence E. Ward

Affiliation Endocrinology Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Helen Karakelides

Affiliation Endocrinology Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Daniel Raftery

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

K. Sreekumaran Nair

nair.sree@mayo.edu

Affiliation Endocrinology Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK KSN. Performed the experiments: IL SZ LW HK. Analyzed the data: IL SZ LW DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR KSN. Wrote the paper: IL SZ LW KSN.