About the Authors

Ranjit K. Deka

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Shih-Chia Tso

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Wei Z. Liu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Chad A. Brautigam

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chad.brautigam@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Department of Biophysics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.