About the Authors

Vincent Fong

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

Marika Osterbur

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

Cristina Capella

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

Yo-El Kim

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

Christopher Hine

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Vera Gorbunova

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Andrei Seluanov

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Stephen Dewhurst

stephen_dewhurst@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, 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: VF MO CC CH VG AS SD. Performed the experiments: VF MO YEK. Analyzed the data: VF MO YEK SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC CH VG AS. Wrote the paper: VF VG SD.