About the Authors

Sonja Hansen

Affiliation Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marin Vulić

Affiliation Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jungki Min

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Tien-Jui Yen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria A. Schumacher

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Richard G. Brennan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kim Lewis

k.lewis@neu.edu

Affiliation Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH KL MAS RGB. Performed the experiments: SH TJY JM. Analyzed the data: SH MV KL MAS RGB TJY JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH TJY JM RGB. Wrote the paper: SH MV KL TJY MAS RGB KL.