About the Authors

Robert W. Crawford

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

A. Marijke Keestra

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sebastian E. Winter

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mariana N. Xavier

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Renée M. Tsolis

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Vladimir Tolstikov

Affiliation Metabolomics Core Laboratory, Genome Center, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Andreas J. Bäumler

ajbaumler@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RWC AMK SEW RMT AJB. Performed the experiments: RWC AMK SEW MNX VT AJB. Analyzed the data: RWC AMK SEW MNX RMT VT AJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VT. Wrote the paper: RWC VT AJB.