About the Authors

Alan G. Barbour

abarbour@uci.edu

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Charlotte M. Hirsch

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Arash Ghalyanchi Langeroudi

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Simone Meinardi

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Eric R. G. Lewis

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Azadeh Shojaee Estabragh

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Donald R. Blake

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute, 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: AGB SM AGL DRB. Performed the experiments: AGB CMH AGL SM ERGL ASE DRB. Analyzed the data: AGB CMH AGL SM DRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGB AGL SM DRB. Wrote the paper: AGB DRB.