About the Authors

Benjamin W. Neuman

b.w.neuman@reading.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Gabriella Kiss

Affiliation School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Hawaa M. N. Al-Mulla

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Terje Dokland

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Michael J. Buchmeier

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Thomas Weikl

Affiliation Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

David Schley

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BWN. Performed the experiments: BWN HMNA GK. Analyzed the data: BWN TW DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BWN TD MJB. Wrote the paper: BWN.