About the Authors

Todd Schoborg

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd Schoborg, Srilalitha Kuruganti

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Srilalitha Kuruganti

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd Schoborg, Srilalitha Kuruganti

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ryan Rickels

Current address: Stowers Institute For Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mariano Labrador

labrador@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML SK TS. Performed the experiments: TS SK RR. Analyzed the data: TS SK RR ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS SK RR ML. Wrote the manuscript: TS ML.