About the Authors

Mariangela Bonizzoni

Affiliations Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

W. Augustine Dunn

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Corey L. Campbell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Ken E. Olson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Osvaldo Marinotti

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Anthony A. James

aajames@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB WAD CLC KEO OM AAJ. Performed the experiments: MB WAD CLC. Analyzed the data: MB WAD CLC KEO OM AAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB WAD CLC. Wrote the paper: MB WAD CLC KEO OM AAJ.