About the Authors

Deepak Balasubramanian

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Science, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Lisa Schneper

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Herbert Werthiem College of Medicine), Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Massimo Merighi

Current address: Glycosyn Inc., Medford, Massachussetts, United States of America

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America

Roger Smith

Current address: Semprus Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachussetts, United States of America

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America

Giri Narasimhan

Affiliation School of Computing and Information Science, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Stephen Lory

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America

Kalai Mathee

Kalai.Mathee@fiu.edu

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Herbert Werthiem College of Medicine), Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB KM. Performed the experiments: DB MM RS. Analyzed the data: DB LS GN SL KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM SL GN. Wrote the paper: DB KM.