About the Authors

Yann S. Dufour

Current address: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, BACTER Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Saheed Imam

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, BACTER Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Byoung-Mo Koo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Heather A. Green

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Timothy J. Donohue

tdonohue@bact.wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, BACTER Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSD B-MK SI HAG TJD. Performed the experiments: YSD B-MK SI HAG. Analyzed the data: YSD B-MK SI HAG TJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSD B-MK SI HAG TJD. Wrote the paper: YSD B-MK SI HAG TJD.