About the Authors

Andrei S. Halavaty

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dominika Borek

Affiliations Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Gregory H. Tyson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jeff L. Veesenmeyer

Current address: Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ludmilla Shuvalova

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

George Minasov

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Zbyszek Otwinowski

Affiliations Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Alan R. Hauser

Contributed equally to this work with: Alan R. Hauser, Wayne F. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wayne F. Anderson

Contributed equally to this work with: Alan R. Hauser, Wayne F. Anderson

wf-anderson@northwestern.edu.

Affiliations Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASH DB GHT ZO GM LS. Performed the experiments: ASH DB GHT LS GM. Analyzed the data: ASH GHT DB JLV ZO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLV ARH WFA. Wrote the paper: ASH ARH WFA.