About the Authors

Dong-Hoon Chung

dhchun01@louisville.edu

Affiliations Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Colleen B. Jonsson

Affiliations Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Nichole A. Tower

Affiliation Drug Discovery Department, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yong-Kyu Chu

Affiliation Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Ergin Sahin

Affiliations Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Jennifer E. Golden

Affiliation University of Kansas Specialized Chemistry Center, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

James W. Noah

Affiliation Drug Discovery Department, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chad E. Schroeder

Affiliation University of Kansas Specialized Chemistry Center, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Julie B. Sotsky

Affiliation Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Melinda I. Sosa

Affiliation Drug Discovery Department, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Daniel E. Cramer

Affiliation Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Sara N. McKellip

Affiliation Drug Discovery Department, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lynn Rasmussen

Affiliation Drug Discovery Department, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

E. Lucile White

Affiliation Drug Discovery Department, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Connie S. Schmaljohn

Affiliation The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Justin G. Julander

Affiliation Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Smith

Affiliation The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Claire Marie Filone

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

John H. Connor

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

Yasuteru Sakurai

Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Robert A. Davey

Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHC CBJ ELW JEG CSS JGJ JHC RAD. Performed the experiments: DHC NAT YKC ES JWN CES JBS DEC SNM LR JGJ JMS CMF YS. Analyzed the data: DHC CBJ MIS JEG JGJ JHC RAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DHC JEG. Wrote the paper: DHC CBJ.