About the Authors

Samantha Kerry

Contributed equally to this work with: Samantha Kerry, Michael TeKippe

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael TeKippe

Contributed equally to this work with: Samantha Kerry, Michael TeKippe

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nathan C. Gaddis

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alejandro Aballay

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: a.aballay@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA MT SK. Performed the experiments: MT SK. Analyzed the data: AA MT SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NG. Wrote the paper: AA MT SK.