About the Authors

Lingquan Deng

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center, Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Barbara A. Bensing

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

Supaporn Thamadilok

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Hai Yu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kam Lau

Current address: Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Xi Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Stefan Ruhl

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Paul M. Sullam

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

Ajit Varki

a1varki@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center, Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD SR PMS AV. Performed the experiments: LD BAB ST. Analyzed the data: LD BAB ST SR PMS AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY KL XC SR PMS AV. Wrote the paper: LD AV.