About the Authors

Janna G. Kiselar

Affiliation Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Xiaowei Wang

Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

George R. Dubyak

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Caroline El Sanadi

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Santosh K. Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Kathleen Lundberg

Affiliation Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Wesley M. Williams

wmw5@case.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WMW. Performed the experiments: JGK WMW CE-S KL. Analyzed the data: JGK WMW GRD XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WMW JGK GRD XW. Wrote the paper: WMW JGK XW. Developed beta-defensin computer model and contributed to figure editing: SKG.