About the Authors

Hee-Soo Park

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Min Ni

Current address: Tarrytown, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kwang Cheol Jeong

Current address: Department of Animal Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Young Hwan Kim

Affiliation Mass Spectrometry Research Center/Mass Spectrometry Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Jae-Hyuk Yu

jyu1@wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HSP MN KCJ JHY. Performed the experiments: HSP MN KCJ YHK. Analyzed the data: HSP MN KCJ YHK JHY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCJ YHK. Wrote the paper: HSP MN JHY.