About the Authors

Heather Piscatelli

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Shalaka A. Kotkar

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Megan E. McBee

Current address: Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering and Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sureshkumar Muthupalani

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering and Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David B. Schauer

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering and Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert E. Mandrell

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

John M. Leong

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daoguo Zhou

zhoud@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP SAK MEM SM DBS REM JML DZ. Performed the experiments: HP SAK MEM SM DBS REM JML DZ. Analyzed the data: HP SAK MEM SM DBS REM JML DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HP SAK MEM SM DBS REM JML DZ. Wrote the paper: HP SAK MEM SM DBS REM JML DZ.