About the Authors

Dingding An

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yiorgos Apidianakis

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ana Laura Boechat

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Regina L. Baldini

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Boyan C. Goumnerov

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurence G. Rahme

rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DA YA RLB LR. Performed the experiments: DA YA ALB RLB BCG. Analyzed the data: DA YA ALB RLB BCG LR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DA YA RLB BCG LR. Wrote the paper: DA YA RLB LR.