About the Authors

Nicholas Renzette

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bornali Bhattacharjee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Jensen

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics & Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura Gibson

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Timothy F. Kowalik

timothy.kowalik@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Immunology and Virology Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NR LG TFK. Performed the experiments: NR BB. Analyzed the data: NR BB JDJ TFK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NR JDJ LG. Wrote the paper: NR TFK.