About the Authors

Evagelia C. Laiakis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Gerard A. J. Morris

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Medical Research Council (UK) Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia

Albert J. Fornace Jr

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States of America, WCU Research Center of Nanobiomedical Science, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea

Stephen R. C. Howie

showie@mrc.gm

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Medical Research Council (UK) Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECL GAM AFJ SH. Performed the experiments: ECL GAM. Analyzed the data: ECL GAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECL GAM AFJ. Wrote the paper: ECL GAM AFJ SH.