About the Authors

Carrie Selin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Maria S. Stietz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jan E. Blanchard

Affiliations M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, McMaster High Throughput Screening Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sebastian S. Gehrke

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian S. Gehrke, Sylvain Bernard

Affiliation M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sylvain Bernard

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian S. Gehrke, Sylvain Bernard

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Dennis G. Hall

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Eric D. Brown

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, McMaster High Throughput Screening Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Silvia T. Cardona

Silvia.Cardona@umanitoba.ca

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS EDB STC. Performed the experiments: CS MSS JEB SB. Analyzed the data: CS MSS JEB SSG EDB STC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DGH. Wrote the paper: CS MSS EDB STC.