About the Authors

Frances Mercer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Lina Kozhaya

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Derya Unutmaz

Derya@mac.com

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Derya Unutmaz is member of the PLoS ONE editorial board as associate and section editor.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DU. Performed the experiments: FM LK. Analyzed the data: FM DU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LK. Wrote the paper: FM DU.