About the Authors

Adam C. Silver

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam C. Silver, David Williams

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

David Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam C. Silver, David Williams

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Joshua Faucher

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Amy J. Horneman

Affiliations Pathology and Laboratory Medical Services, VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medical and Research Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

J. Peter Gogarten

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Joerg Graf

joerg.graf@uconn.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACS DW JPG JG. Performed the experiments: ACS DW JF JPG JG. Analyzed the data: ACS DW JF JPG JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJH JPG JG. Wrote the paper: ACS DW JPG JG.