About the Authors

Shandee D. Dixon

Contributed equally to this work with: Shandee D. Dixon, Melanie M. Huynh

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Melanie M. Huynh

Contributed equally to this work with: Shandee D. Dixon, Melanie M. Huynh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Batcha Tamilselvam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Lindsey M. Spiegelman

Current address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sophia B. Son

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Aria Eshraghi

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Steven R. Blanke

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kenneth A. Bradley

kbradley@microbio.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDD MMH BT SRB KAB. Performed the experiments: SDD MMH BT AE SS. Analyzed the data: SDD MMH BT SRB KAB SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMS SBS. Wrote the paper: SRB KAB.