About the Authors

Kathryn D. Bewley

Current address: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mishtu Dey

Current address: Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rebekah E. Bjork

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sangha Mitra

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sarah E. Chobot

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catherine L. Drennan

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sean J. Elliott

elliott@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KDB MD REB SM SEC CLD SJE. Performed the experiments: KDB MD SM SEC. Analyzed the data: KDB MD REB SEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDB MD SM SEC. Wrote the paper: KDB MD REB CLD SJE.