About the Authors
- Shee-Mei Lok
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shee-Mei Lok, Joshua M. Costin
Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke–NUS, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Joshua M. Costin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shee-Mei Lok, Joshua M. Costin
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
- Yancey M. Hrobowski
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Current address: Operations and Tactics Division, Center for Naval Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Andrew R. Hoffmann
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Dawne K. Rowe
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
- Petra Kukkaro
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Affiliation Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke–NUS, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Heather Holdaway
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Current address: Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
- Paul Chipman
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Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
- Krystal A. Fontaine
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Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
- Michael R. Holbrook
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Current address: NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Ft. Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Robert F. Garry
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Victor Kostyuchenko
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Affiliation Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke–NUS, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- William C. Wimley
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Sharon Isern
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
- Michael G. Rossmann
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
- Scott F. Michael
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* E-mail: smichael@fgcu.edu
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
Tulane University has applied for patents covering the peptide described in this work with RFG and SFM as inventors (7,416,733 issued 8/26/2008, 7,854,937 issued 12/21/2010, application 20110130328 filed 8/22/2008). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JMC SML WCW MGR SI RFG SFM. Performed the experiments: SML VK MGR HH PC PK JMC YMH MRH DKR KAF SI ARH. Analyzed the data: JMC SML WCW MGR SI RFG SFM. Wrote the paper: SML JMC WCW MGR SFM.