About the Authors

Praveen R. Juvvadi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher Gehrke

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jarrod R. Fortwendel

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America.

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Frédéric Lamoth

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Erik J. Soderblom

Affiliation Duke Proteomics Facility, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Erik C. Cook

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Center for Structural Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Michael A. Hast

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yohannes G. Asfaw

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Animal Resources, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Arthur Moseley

Affiliation Duke Proteomics Facility, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Trevor P. Creamer

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Center for Structural Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

William J. Steinbach

bill.steinbach@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRJ WJS. Performed the experiments: PRJ CG JRF FL ECC. Analyzed the data: PRJ CG JRF FL ECC EJS YGA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJS MAM YGA TPC. Wrote the paper: PRJ WJS. Performed molecular modeling: MAH.