About the Authors

Katja Pirc

Contributed equally to this work with: Katja Pirc, Vesna Hodnik

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Vesna Hodnik

Contributed equally to this work with: Katja Pirc, Vesna Hodnik

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

Current address: Lek d.d., Kolodvorska, Mengeš, Slovenia

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tina Snoj

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tea Lenarčič

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Simon Caserman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Marjetka Podobnik

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Hannah Böhm

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Isabell Albert

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Anita Kotar

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Slovenian NMR Center, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Janez Plavec

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Slovenian NMR Center, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Jure Borišek

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Theory Department, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Martina Damuzzo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CNR-IOM-Democritos at International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy

Alessandra Magistrato

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CNR-IOM-Democritos at International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy

Boris Brus

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Izidor Sosič

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Stanislav Gobec

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thorsten Nürnberger

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

Gregor Anderluh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gregor.anderluh@ki.si

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Gregor Anderluh, Marjetka Podobnik, Tea Lenarčič, Vesna Hodnik, Stanislav Gobec, Boris Brus, Izidor Sosič, Thorsten Nuernberger, Isabell Albert and Hannah Bohm are inventors of a patent application covering the compounds described in this article.