About the Authors

Kate Stuart

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Stuart, John Paderi

Affiliation Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

John Paderi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Stuart, John Paderi

Affiliation Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Paul W. Snyder

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lynetta Freeman

Affiliations Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Alyssa Panitch

apanitch@purdue.edu

Affiliation Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors Kate Stuart, John Paderi, Alyssa Panitch, and Lynetta Freeman are inventors on patents to the peptidoglycan technology and are founders of Glytrix, LLC, which holds exclusive option to the peptidoglycan technology, and was awarded SBIR funding, supporting part of the work herein. 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: KS JP LF AP. Performed the experiments: KS JP PS LF. Analyzed the data: KS JP PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS JP PS AP. Wrote the paper: KS JP LF AP.