About the Authors

Ransome van der Hoeven

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Katie C. McCallum

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Melissa R. Cruz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Danielle A. Garsin

Danielle.A.Garsin@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAG RvdH KCM. Performed the experiments: RvdH KCM MRC. Analyzed the data: DAG RvdH KCM MRC. Wrote the paper: DAG RvdH.