About the Authors

Sean Ekins

ekinssean@yahoo.com

Affiliations Collaborations in Chemistry, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Sandhya Kortagere

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Manisha Iyer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erica J. Reschly

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Markus A. Lill

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafaytte, Indiana, United States of America

Matthew R. Redinbo

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, The Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Matthew D. Krasowski

Current address: Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SE SK MAL MDK. Performed the experiments: SE SK MI EJR MAL MDK. Analyzed the data: SE SK MAL MDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SE SK EJR MAL MRR MDK. Wrote the paper: SE SK MAL MRR MDK.