About the Authors

Brittany Burton

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael T. Zimmermann

Affiliation Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Robert L. Jernigan

Jernigan@iastate.edu (RLJ); ywang@memphis.edu (YW)

Affiliation Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Yongmei Wang

Jernigan@iastate.edu (RLJ); ywang@memphis.edu (YW)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLJ YW. Performed the experiments: BB MTZ YW. Analyzed the data: BB MTZ YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB MTZ YW. Wrote the paper: BB MTZ RLJ YW.