About the Authors

John Haran

Contributed equally to this work with: John Haran, Hannah Boyle

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Hannah Boyle

Contributed equally to this work with: John Haran, Hannah Boyle

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Karsten Hokamp

Affiliation School of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Tim Yeomans

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Zhongle Liu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Michael Church

Affiliation School of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Alastair B. Fleming

Affiliation School of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Matthew Z. Anderson

Current address: Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Judith Berman

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Lawrence C. Myers

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Derek J. Sullivan

Derek.sullivan@dental.tcd.ie (DJS); gpmoran@dental.tcd.ie (GPM)

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Gary P. Moran

Derek.sullivan@dental.tcd.ie (DJS); gpmoran@dental.tcd.ie (GPM)

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH HB TY ZL LCM MC ABF MZA JB DJS GPM. Performed the experiments: JH HB TY ZL. Analyzed the data: JH HB ZL LCM KH ABF MZA JB DJS GPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCM JB ABF DJS GPM. Wrote the paper: GPM.