About the Authors

Zhenyu Liu

Affiliation Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Agnieszka Szarecka

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, United States of America

Michael Yonkunas

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kirill Speranskiy

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Maria Kurnikova

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael Cascio

casciom@duq.edu

Affiliations Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC MK ZL AS. Performed the experiments: ZL AS MY KS. Analyzed the data: MC MK ZL AS MY KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC MK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MC MK ZL AS.