About the Authors

Christopher R. Cotter

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher R. Cotter, Marie L. Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Marie L. Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher R. Cotter, Marie L. Nguyen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America

Jacob S. Yount

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Carolina B. López

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

John A. Blaho

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas M. Moran

thomas.moran@mssm.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC MLN TMM. Performed the experiments: CC MLN JSY. Analyzed the data: CC MLN JSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAB. Wrote the paper: CC. Assisted in writing the manuscript: TMM CL. Helped edit the manuscript: MLN JSY JAB.