About the Authors

Karthik Sekar

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America

Andrew M. Gentile

Affiliation Master of Biotechnology Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America

John W. Bostick

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Keith E. J. Tyo

k-tyo@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS KEJT AMG JWB. Performed the experiments: KS AMG. Analyzed the data: KS KEJT AMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS JWB. Wrote the paper: KS KEJT AMG. Designed model and performed calculations: KS.