About the Authors

Mikhail Pavlenok

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ian M. Derrington

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jens H. Gundlach

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael Niederweis

mnieder@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHG MN. Performed the experiments: MP IMD. Analyzed the data: MP IMD JHG MN. Wrote the paper: MP MN.