About the Authors

Patrick R. Secor

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick R. Secor, Laura K. Jennings

psecor@uw.edu

Current address: University of Washington’s Center for Lung Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Laura K. Jennings

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick R. Secor, Laura K. Jennings

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Garth A. James

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Kelly R. Kirker

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Elinor deLancey Pulcini

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Kate McInnerney

Affiliation Functional Genomics Core Facility, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Robin Gerlach

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Tom Livinghouse

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Jonathan K. Hilmer

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Brian Bothner

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Philip Fleckman

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John E. Olerud

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Philip S. Stewart

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRS LKJ GAJ PF JEO PSS. Performed the experiments: PRS LKJ KRK KM RG TL JKH EDP. Analyzed the data: PRS LKJ GAJ KRK KM EDP RG JKH BB PSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAJ KM RG TL BB PF JEO PSS. Wrote the paper: PRS LKJ.