About the Authors

John R. Collette

Current address: Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Huaijin Zhou

Current address: GlycosBio, Inc., Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael C. Lorenz

Michael.Lorenz@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRC HZ MCL. Performed the experiments: JRC HZ. Analyzed the data: JRC HZ MCL. Wrote the paper: JRC MCL.