About the Authors

Jeremy A. Iwashkiw

Affiliation Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Andrea Seper

Affiliation Institut fuer Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, Graz, Austria

Brent S. Weber

Affiliation Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nichollas E. Scott

Affiliations Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Evgeny Vinogradov

Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Chad Stratilo

Affiliation Defence Research and Development Canada Suffield, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Bela Reiz

Affiliation Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Stuart J. Cordwell

Affiliation School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Randy Whittal

Affiliation Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Stefan Schild

Affiliation Institut fuer Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, Graz, Austria

Mario F. Feldman

mfeldman@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFF JAI NES CS. Performed the experiments: JAI AS BSW NES BR EV. Analyzed the data: JAI MFF AS SS BR NES CS EV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFF SS SJC CS RW EV. Wrote the paper: JAI MFF.