About the Authors

Brooke L. Deatherage Kaiser

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Jie Li

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

James A. Sanford

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Young-Mo Kim

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Scott R. Kronewitter

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Marcus B. Jones

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

Christine T. Peterson

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

Scott N. Peterson

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

Bryan C. Frank

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

Samuel O. Purvine

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Joseph N. Brown

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Thomas O. Metz

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Richard D. Smith

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Fred Heffron

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Joshua N. Adkins

Joshua.Adkins@pnnl.gov

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLDK JL YMK SRK MBJ SNP TOM RDS FH JNA. Performed the experiments: BLDK JL JAS YMK SRK MBJ SNP BCF. Analyzed the data: BLDK JL YMK SRK MBJ SNP BCF SOP JNB TOM FH JNA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBJ CTP SNP RDS. Wrote the paper: BLDK JL YMK SRK MBJ CTP SNP JNB TOM RDS FH JNA.