About the Authors

Jennifer C. Chang

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Breah LaSarre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Juan C. Jimenez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chaitanya Aggarwal

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael J. Federle

mfederle@uic.edu

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCC BL JCJ MJF. Performed the experiments: JCC BL JCJ CA. Analyzed the data: JCC BL JCJ MJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCC BL CA. Wrote the paper: JCC BL MJF.