About the Authors

Mariette Barbier

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariette Barbier, F. Heath Damron

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

F. Heath Damron

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariette Barbier, F. Heath Damron

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Piotr Bielecki

Affiliation Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

María Suárez-Diez

Affiliation Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Jacek Puchałka

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Sebastian Albertí

Affiliation IUNICS, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Vitor Martins dos Santos

Affiliations Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, LifeGlimmer GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Joanna B. Goldberg

joanna.goldberg@emory.edu.

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, and Center for Cystic Fibrosis Research, Emory University School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors confirm that Dr. Vitor Martin dos Santos is employed by Lifeglimmer GmbH. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB FHD PB MS-D JP SA VMDS JBG. Performed the experiments: MB PB MS-D JP. Analyzed the data: MB FHD PB MS-D JP SA VMDS JBG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB PD MS-D JP. Wrote the paper: MB FHD PB MS-D JP SA VMDS JBG.