About the Authors

Rembert Pieper

rpieper@jcvi.org

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Quanshun Zhang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

David J. Clark

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Prashanth P. Parmar

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Hamid Alami

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Moo-Jin Suh

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Srilatha Kuntumalla

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

John C. Braisted

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shih-Ting Huang

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Saul Tzipori

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RP ST. Performed the experiments: QZ DJC HA PPP MS. Analyzed the data: RP QZ STH JCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STH SK JCB. Wrote the paper: RP. Manuscript review, pathogenesis: QZ ST.