About the Authors

Tae Kwon Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Tae Kwon Kim, Lucas Tirloni

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Lucas Tirloni

Contributed equally to this work with: Tae Kwon Kim, Lucas Tirloni

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Antônio F. M. Pinto

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas em Biologia Molecular e Funcional, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Tuberculose (INCT-TB), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

James Moresco

Affiliation Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

John R. Yates III

Affiliation Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Itabajara da Silva Vaz Jr.

Affiliations Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Albert Mulenga

amulenga@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TKK LT AM. Performed the experiments: TKK LT AFMP JRY AM. Analyzed the data: TKK LT AFMP JM IdSV AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM JRY. Wrote the paper: TKK LT AFMP IdSV AM.