About the Authors

Natalia O. Tjokro

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Rocco

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Richa Priyadarshini

Current address: Department of Life Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, School of Natural Sciences, Uttar Pradesh, India

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, The Forsyth Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mary E. Davey

mdavey@dental.ufl.edu (MED); steven.goodman@nationwidechildrens.org (SDG)

Current address: Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, College of Dentistry, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, The Forsyth Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven D. Goodman

mdavey@dental.ufl.edu (MED); steven.goodman@nationwidechildrens.org (SDG)

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NOT MED SDG. Performed the experiments: NOT RP. Analyzed the data: NOT CJR MED SDG. Wrote the paper: NOT CJR MED SDG.