About the Authors

Jae-Sook Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Jae-Sook Park, Sarah K. Steinbach

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Sarah K. Steinbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Jae-Sook Park, Sarah K. Steinbach

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Michel Desautels

Affiliation Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Sean M. Hemmingsen

Sean.Hemmingsen@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSP SKS MD SMH. Performed the experiments: JSP SKS MD SMH. Analyzed the data: JSP SKS MD SMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSP SKS MD SMH. Wrote the paper: JSP SKS MD SMH.