About the Authors

Tiffany M. Lucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiffany M. Lucas, Sanath K. Janaka

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri-School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Sanath K. Janaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Tiffany M. Lucas, Sanath K. Janaka

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri-School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Edward B. Stephens

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Marc C. Johnson

marcjohnson@missouri.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri-School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCJ TML SKJ EBS. Performed the experiments: TML SKJ. Analyzed the data: MCJ TML SKJ EBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TML SKJ EBS. Wrote the paper: MCJ TML.