About the Authors

Nisha Nair

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Mariana Soares Guedes

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Immuno Technologies, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Catherine Werts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology and Genetics of the Bacterial Cell Wall Unit, Paris, France

Maria Gomes-Solecki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mgomesso@uthsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Immuno Technologies, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and some of the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MSG and MGS are or were employed in part by a commercial company, Immuno Technologies, Inc. MGS holds more than 5% financial interest in Immuno Technologies, Inc. NN and CW declare no conflicts.