About the Authors

Tasia M. Pyburn

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Barbara A. Bensing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yan Q. Xiong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Bruce J. Melancon

Current address: Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery, Department of Pharmacology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliations Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Thomas M. Tomasiak

Current address: Molecular Structure Group, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Nicholas J. Ward

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Victoria Yankovskaya

Affiliation Molecular Biology Division, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kevin M. Oliver

Affiliations Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gary Cecchini

Affiliations Molecular Biology Division, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gary A. Sulikowski

Affiliations Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Matthew J. Tyska

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Paul M. Sullam

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

T. M. Iverson

tina.iverson@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC GAS MJT PMS TMI. Performed the experiments: TMP BAB YQX BJM VY KMO MJT. Analyzed the data: TMP BAB YQX BJM TMT NJW MJT TMI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VY. Wrote the paper: TMP BAB YQX BJM GAS MJT PMS TMI.