About the Authors

Lara Bull-Otterson

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Bull-Otterson, Wenke Feng

Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wenke Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Bull-Otterson, Wenke Feng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Irina Kirpich

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Yuhua Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Xiang Qin

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yanlong Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Leila Gobejishvili

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Swati Joshi-Barve

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Tulin Ayvaz

Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph Petrosino

Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Maiying Kong

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

David Barker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Craig McClain

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Robley Rex VAMC, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Shirish Barve

shirishbarve@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Alcohol Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LBO JP WF CM SB. Performed the experiments: LBO IK TA YW YL LG SJ-B DB. Analyzed the data: LBO XQ JP SB MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP CM SB. Wrote the paper: LBO SB.