About the Authors

Xiaodong Xiao

Current address: Medimmune, LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Protein Interactions Group, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Zhongyu Zhu

Affiliations Protein Interactions Group, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, BSP, Science Applications International Corporation-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer L. Dankmeyer

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Michael M. Wormald

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Randy L. Fast

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Patricia L. Worsham

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher K. Cote

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Kei Amemiya

dimiter.dimitrov@nih.gov (DSD); kei.amemiya@us.army.mil (KA)

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Dimiter S. Dimitrov

dimiter.dimitrov@nih.gov (DSD); kei.amemiya@us.army.mil (KA)

Affiliation Protein Interactions Group, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

SAIC-Fredereick, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation and operates exclusively under a single, long-term contract to the National Cancer Institute, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. All funding is derived from the U.S. Government. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX KA DSD. Performed the experiments: XX ZZ JLD MMW RLF PLW CKC KA. Analyzed the data: XX KA DSD. Wrote the paper: XX ZZ KA DSD.