About the Authors

Adam Schafer

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Schafer, Rui Xiong, Laura Cooper

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

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

Rui Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Schafer, Rui Xiong, Laura Cooper

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rxiong3@uic.edu (RX); hancheng@uic.edu (HC); lijun@uic.edu (LR)

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and UICentre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Laura Cooper

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Schafer, Rui Xiong, Laura Cooper

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and UICentre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Raghad Nowar

Roles Validation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and UICentre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hyun Lee

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and UICentre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Biophysics core, Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yangfeng Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and UICentre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Benjamin E. Ramirez

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, NMR Core, Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Norton P. Peet

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Chicago BioSolutions Inc., Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael Caffrey

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gregory R. J. Thatcher

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and UICentre, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Erica Ollmann Saphire

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Han Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rxiong3@uic.edu (RX); hancheng@uic.edu (HC); lijun@uic.edu (LR)

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

Lijun Rong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

rxiong3@uic.edu (RX); hancheng@uic.edu (HC); lijun@uic.edu (LR)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.