About the Authors

Vignesh M. P. Babu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Mark D. Sutton

mdsutton@buffalo.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Program, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VMPB MDS. Performed the experiments: VMPB. Analyzed the data: VMPB MDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VMPB MDS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: VMPB MDS.