About the Authors

Dana Austin

Contributed equally to this work with: Dana Austin, Alan Baer

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Alan Baer

Contributed equally to this work with: Dana Austin, Alan Baer

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Lindsay Lundberg

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Nazly Shafagati

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Annalise Schoonmaker

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Aarthi Narayanan

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Taissia Popova

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Jean Jacques Panthier

Affiliation Mouse Functional Genetics, Institut Pastuer, Paris, France

Fatah Kashanchi

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Charles Bailey

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Kylene Kehn-Hall

kkehnhal@gmu.edu

Affiliation National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

KK and FK are academic editors for PLoS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK FK CB JJP. Performed the experiments: DA AB AS AN TP LL NS. Analyzed the data: DA KK. Wrote the paper: DA KK.