About the Authors

Katherine A. Owen

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine A. Owen, Michelle Y. Abshire

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Michelle Y. Abshire

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine A. Owen, Michelle Y. Abshire

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Robert W. Tilghman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

James E. Casanova

ahb8y@virginia.edu (AHB); jec9e@virginia.edu (JEC)

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Amy H. Bouton

ahb8y@virginia.edu (AHB); jec9e@virginia.edu (JEC)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAO MYA RWT JEC AHB. Performed the experiments: KAO MYA RWT. Analyzed the data: KAO MYA RWT JEC AHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAO MYA RWT JEC AHB. Wrote the paper: KAO MYA RWT JEC AHB.