About the Authors

Vijayashankar Nataraj

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Poh-choo Pang

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

Stuart M. Haslam

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

Natacha Veerapen

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

David E. Minnikin

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Anne Dell

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

Gurdyal S. Besra

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Apoorva Bhatt

a.bhatt@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VN GSB AB. Performed the experiments: VN PP SH NV. Analyzed the data: VN PP SH NV AD DEM GSB AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VN PP SH NV AD DEM GSB AB. Wrote the paper: VN GSB AB.