About the Authors

Rebecca L. Gonda

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rebecca A. Garlena

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Beth Stronach

stronach@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLG RAG BS. Performed the experiments: RLG RAG BS. Analyzed the data: RLG RAG BS. Wrote the paper: RLG BS.