About the Authors

Kelly C. Fahnoe

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Celgene Avilomics Research, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Antibacterials Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Mark E. Flanagan

Affiliation Antibacterials Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Glenn Gibson

Current address: Department of Cardiovascular Metabolic Disease Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Antibacterials Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Veerabahu Shanmugasundaram

Affiliation Antibacterials Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Ye Che

Affiliation Antibacterials Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Andrew P. Tomaras

andrew.tomaras@pfizer.com

Affiliation Antibacterials Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors have been employed by Pfizer, either past or present, and may own stock in the company. Pfizer was the funder for this study. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCF MEF GG APT. Performed the experiments: KCF GG APT. Analyzed the data: KCF MEF VS YC APT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCF MEF VS YC. Wrote the paper: KCF MEF VS APT.