About the Authors

Nagendra N. Mishra

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Arnold S. Bayer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Truc T. Tran

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Laboratory for Antimicrobial Research, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yousif Shamoo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eugenia Mileykovskaya

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William Dowhan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ziqiang Guan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Cesar A. Arias

cesar.arias@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Laboratory for Antimicrobial Research, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Molecular Genetics and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAA ASB. Performed the experiments: NNM TTT ZG. Analyzed the data: NNM ASB TTT YS EM WD ZG CAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NNM ASB TTT ZG CAA. Wrote the paper: NNM ASB TTT YS EM WD ZG CAA.