About the Authors

Sumant Puri

Contributed equally to this work with: Sumant Puri, Rohitashw Kumar

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Rohitashw Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sumant Puri, Rohitashw Kumar

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Sonia Chadha

Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Swetha Tati

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Heather R. Conti

Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bernhard Hube

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute Jena, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Paul J. Cullen

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Mira Edgerton

edgerto@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP RK SC PJC ME. Performed the experiments: SP RK SC ST HRC. Analyzed the data: SP RK SC ST HRC ME. Wrote the paper: SP RK SC ST PJC BH ME.