About the Authors

Marlise I. Klein

Affiliation Center for Oral Biology and Eastman Department of Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Lena DeBaz

Affiliation Center for Oral Biology and Eastman Department of Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Senyo Agidi

Affiliation Center for Oral Biology and Eastman Department of Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Herbert Lee

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Gary Xie

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Amy H.-M. Lin

Affiliation Department of Food Science, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Bruce R. Hamaker

Affiliation Department of Food Science, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

José A. Lemos

Affiliations Center for Oral Biology and Eastman Department of Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hyun Koo

Hyun_Koo@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliations Center for Oral Biology and Eastman Department of Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MIK JAL HK. Performed the experiments: MIK LD SA AHML BH. Analyzed the data: MIK HL GX JAL HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL GX JAL HK. Wrote the paper: MIK HK.