About the Authors

Abdelahad Khajo

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Ruth A. Bryan

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Matthew Friedman

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Richard M. Burger

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Yan Levitsky

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Arturo Casadevall

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Richard S. Magliozzo

RMaglioz@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Ekaterina Dadachova

Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ED RSM RAB AK RMB. Performed the experiments: AK RAB YL MF. Analyzed the data: AK RAB RSM ED RMB AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ED RSM AC. Wrote the paper: AK ED RSM RAB. Manuscript Editing: RMB.