About the Authors

Amanda Lucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Lucas, Yuri Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Yuri Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Lucas, Yuri Kim

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

Omayra Rivera-Pabon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sunju Chae

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

Dong-Hyun Kim

baek_kim@urmc.rochester.edu (BK); dhkim@khu. ac.kr (DHK)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

Baek Kim

baek_kim@urmc.rochester.edu (BK); dhkim@khu. ac.kr (DHK)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHK BK. Performed the experiments: AL YK ORP SC. Analyzed the data: AL YK SC. Wrote the paper: BK.