About the Authors

Shay Ben-Aroya

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Neta Agmon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Karen Yuen

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Teresa Kwok

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Kirk McManus

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Martin Kupiec

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Philip Hieter

hieter@msl.ubc.ca

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBA. Performed the experiments: SBA NA KY TK. Analyzed the data: SBA KY MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBA KM. Wrote the paper: SBA MK. Principal investigator: PH.