About the Authors

Erin E. McClelland

erin.mcclelland@mtsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States of America

Udupi A. Ramagopal

Current address: Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore, INDIA

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Johanna Rivera

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

James Cox

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Antonio Nakouzi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Moses M. Prabu

Affiliation M&P Associates Inc., Murfreesboro, Tennesee, United States of America

Steven C. Almo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Arturo Casadevall

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MMP has a consulting company (M&P Associates, Inc.) through which he contributed the structural analysis. He agreed to be included as an author on the manuscript in lieu of any payment.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EEM AC. Formal analysis: EEM UAR JR JC AN MMP. Funding acquisition: EEM AC. Investigation: EEM UAR JR JC AN MMP. Methodology: EEM UAR JR JC AN MMP SCA AC. Project administration: EEM AC. Resources: EEM SCA AC. Supervision: EEM AC. Visualization: EEM JR JC MMP. Writing – original draft: EEM UAR MMP AC. Writing – review & editing: EEM AC.