About the Authors

Diego O. Serra

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Fermentaciones Industriales (CINDEFI), CONICET-CCT-La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Matt S. Conover

Affiliation Program in Molecular Genetics, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Laura Arnal

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Fermentaciones Industriales (CINDEFI), CONICET-CCT-La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Gina Parise Sloan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

María E. Rodriguez

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Fermentaciones Industriales (CINDEFI), CONICET-CCT-La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Osvaldo M. Yantorno

rdeora@wfubmc.edu (RD); yantorno@quimica.unlp.edu.ar (OMY)

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Fermentaciones Industriales (CINDEFI), CONICET-CCT-La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Rajendar Deora

rdeora@wfubmc.edu (RD); yantorno@quimica.unlp.edu.ar (OMY)

Affiliations Program in Molecular Genetics, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DOS MSC OMY RD. Performed the experiments: DOS MSC GPS LA. Analyzed the data: DOS MSC OMY RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DOS MER OMY RD. Wrote the paper: DOS OMY RD.