About the Authors

Vijay R. Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Vijay R. Gupta, Hetal K. Patel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Hetal K. Patel

Contributed equally to this work with: Vijay R. Gupta, Hetal K. Patel

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sean S. Kostolansky

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Roberto A. Ballivian

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph Eichberg

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Steven R. Blanke

sblanke@life.uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JE SB. Performed the experiments: VG HP SK RB. Analyzed the data: VG HP SK SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VG. Wrote the paper: JE SB.