About the Authors

Patryk Zaloba

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Ben A. Bailey-Elkin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Miriam Derksen

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Brian L. Mark

brian.mark@umanitoba.ca

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLM. Performed the experiments: PZ BAB MD. Analyzed the data: PZ BAB MD BLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PZ BAB MD BLM. Wrote the paper: PZ BAB BLM.