About the Authors

Vijay Parashar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Nicolas Mirouze

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute Center, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

David A. Dubnau

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Public Health Research Institute Center, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Matthew B. Neiditch

matthew.neiditch@umdnj.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: VP NM DAD MBN. Performed the experiments: VP NM DAD MBN. Analyzed the data: VP NM DAD MBN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VP NM DAD MBN. Wrote the paper: VP MBN.