About the Authors

Felicia D. Langel

Contributed equally to this work with: Felicia D. Langel, Chih-Yuan Chiang

Affiliation Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chih-Yuan Chiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Felicia D. Langel, Chih-Yuan Chiang

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Douglas Lane

Affiliation SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Tara Kenny

Affiliation SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jenifer F. Ojeda

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Yang Zhong

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jianwei Che

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yingyao Zhou

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Wilson Ribot

Affiliation Bacteriology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Krishna P. Kota

Affiliation Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sina Bavari

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Rekha G. Panchal

rekha.g.panchal.civ@mail.mil

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The author Krishna P. Kota (KK) is employed by Perkin Elmer, and Douglas Lane (DL) and Tara Kenny (TK) are employed by SAIC-NCI. However, there is no financial conflict and this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FDL RGP SB. Performed the experiments: DL FDL TK KK. Analyzed the data: JC YZ YYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WR. Wrote the paper: CYC FDL JO RGP.