About the Authors

Leticia Reyes

lreyes@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Eileen Eiler-McManis

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Paulo H. Rodrigues

Current address: Department de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, São Paulo, Brazil

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Amandeep S. Chadda

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Shannon M. Wallet

Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Periodontology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Myriam Bélanger

Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine and Georgia Genomics Facility, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Amanda G. Barrett

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sophie Alvarez

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, proteomics & mass spectrometry Core, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Debra Akin

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

William A. Dunn Jr.

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ann Progulske-Fox

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry and Center for Molecular Microbiology, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR EEM PHR ASC SA MB WAD APF. Performed the experiments: LR EEM PHR ASC SA MB SMW AGB DA. Analyzed the data: LR EEM PHR ASC SA MB DA SMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR DA WAD SMW APF. Wrote the manuscript: LR EEM PHR SA MB SMW AGB WAD APF.