About the Authors

Charles Ansong

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles Ansong, Hyunjin Yoon

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Hyunjin Yoon

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles Ansong, Hyunjin Yoon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Steffen Porwollik

Affiliation The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Heather Mottaz-Brewer

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Brianne O. Petritis

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Navdeep Jaitly

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Joshua N. Adkins

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Michael McClelland

Affiliation The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Fred Heffron

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Richard D. Smith

rds@pnl.gov

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA HY JNA FH RS. Performed the experiments: CA HY SP HMB BP. Analyzed the data: CA HY SP JNA FH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJ MM. Wrote the paper: CA HY JNA FH. PI for grants that provided partial support: RS FH. Contributed to initial drafts of the manuscript: SP.