About the Authors

Susan Puckett

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Carolina Trujillo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Hyungjin Eoh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Joeli Marrero

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

John Spencer

Affiliation Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Mary Jackson

Affiliation Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Dirk Schnappinger

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Kyu Rhee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Sabine Ehrt

sae2004@med.cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SE SP DS KR. Performed the experiments: SP CT JM. Analyzed the data: SP SE DS HE KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR JS MJ. Wrote the paper: SP KR SE.