About the Authors

Ingrid K. Ruf

iruf@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jennifer L. Houmani

Current address: Shriner's Hospital for Children, Research Division, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jeffery T. Sample

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IKR JTS. Performed the experiments: IKR JLH. Analyzed the data: IKR JLH JTS. Wrote the paper: IKR JTS.