About the Authors

Samantha N. McNulty

Affiliation The Genome Institute at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Peter U. Fischer

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

R. Reid Townsend

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kurt C. Curtis

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gary J. Weil

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Makedonka Mitreva

mmitreva@genome.wustl.edu

Affiliations The Genome Institute at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SNM PUF GJW MM. Performed the experiments: SNM KCC RRT. Analyzed the data: SNM RRT PUF GJW MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PUF GJW RRT MM. Wrote the paper: SNM PUF GJW MM.