About the Authors

Stefanie A. Krumm

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

J. Maina Ndungu

Affiliation Emory Institute for Drug Discovery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jeong-Joong Yoon

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Melanie Dochow

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Aiming Sun

Affiliation Emory Institute for Drug Discovery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael Natchus

Affiliation Emory Institute for Drug Discovery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

James P. Snyder

Affiliations Emory Institute for Drug Discovery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Richard K. Plemper

rplempe@emory.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAK MN JPS RKP. Performed the experiments: SAK JMN J-JY MD AS RKP. Analyzed the data: SAK JMN JPS RKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS MN. Wrote the paper: SAK JMN RKP.