About the Authors

Pintu Patra

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kimberley Kissoon

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America

Isabel Cornejo

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Heidi B. Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Oleg A. Igoshin

igoshin@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP HBK OAI. Performed the experiments: PP KK IC HBK. Analyzed the data: PP KK IC HBK OAI. Wrote the paper: PP HBK OAI.