About the Authors

Lan Gong

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Meabh Cullinane

Current address: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Puthayalai Treerat

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Georg Ramm

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mark Prescott

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ben Adler

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

John D. Boyce

Rod.Devenish@monash.edu (RJD); John.Boyce@monash.edu (JDB)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rodney J. Devenish

Rod.Devenish@monash.edu (RJD); John.Boyce@monash.edu (JDB)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG MP BA JDB RJD. Performed the experiments: LG MC PT GR. Analyzed the data: LG MC MP BA JDB RJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GR MP JDB RJD. Wrote the paper: LG MP BA JDB RJD.