About the Authors

Marissa B. Guzzo

Contributed equally to this work with: Marissa B. Guzzo, Hoa T. Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Hoa T. Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Marissa B. Guzzo, Hoa T. Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Thanh H. Pham

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Monika Wyszczelska-Rokiel

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Environmental Chemistry, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Hieronim Jakubowski

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Life Sciences University, Poznań, Poland

Kerstin A. Wolff

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sam Ogwang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Joseph L. Timpona

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Soumya Gogula

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Michael R. Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Markus Ruetz

Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Bernhard Kräutler

Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Donald W. Jacobsen

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Guo-Fang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Liem Nguyen

liem.nguyen@case.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MBG HTN LN. Data curation: GFZ LN. Formal analysis: MBG HTN THP MWR HJ KAW GFZ LN. Funding acquisition: LN. Investigation: MBG HTN THP MWR KAW SO JLT SG MR GFZ LN. Methodology: MBG HTN THP MWR HJ KAW SO BK GFZ LN. Project administration: LN. Resources: HJ MRJ BK DWJ GFZ LN. Supervision: LN. Validation: MBG HTN THP. Visualization: MBG LN. Writing – original draft: MBG LN. Writing – review & editing: MBG HJ BK DWJ GFZ LN.