About the Authors

David B Friedman

Contributed equally to this work with: David B Friedman, Devin L Stauff

Affiliation Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Devin L Stauff

Contributed equally to this work with: David B Friedman, Devin L Stauff

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gleb Pishchany

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Corbin W Whitwell

Affiliation Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Victor J Torres

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Eric P Skaar

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eric.skaar@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DBF, DLS, GP, VJT, and EPS conceived and designed the experiments. DBF, DLS, GP, CWW, VJT, and EPS performed the experiments. DBF, DLS, CWW, VJT, and EPS analyzed the data. DBF, DLS, and EPS wrote the paper.