About the Authors

Anette I. Öberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Anette I. Öberg, Kamal Yassin

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Kamal Yassin

Contributed equally to this work with: Anette I. Öberg, Kamal Yassin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Robert I. Csikasz

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Nodi Dehvari

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Irina G. Shabalina

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Dana S. Hutchinson

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Mona Wilcke

Affiliation Glucox Biotech AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Claes-Göran Östenson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Tore Bengtsson

tore.bengtsson@wgi.su.se

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

Dana S. Hutchinson, Tore Bengtsson and Mona Wilcke own shares in Glucox Biotech AB. Mona Wilcke is employed by Glucox Biotech AB. Glucox Biotech AB holds patent and pa concerning naphtoquinone. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AIÖ KY RIC IGS ND. Performed the experiments: AIÖ KY RIC IGS ND. Analyzed the data: AIÖ KY RIC ND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW. Wrote the paper: AIÖ TB KY C-GÖ DH.