About the Authors

Heather M Scobie

Affiliations Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Darran J Wigelsworth

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John M Marlett

Affiliation Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Diane Thomas

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

G. Jonah A Rainey

Affiliation Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

D. Borden Lacy

¤ Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marianne Manchester

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

R. John Collier

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John A. T Young

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jyoung@salk.edu

Affiliation Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

RJC and JATY hold equity on PharmAthene, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland, United States).

Author Contributions

HMS, DJW, DBL, MM, RJC, and JATY conceived and designed the experiments. HMS, DJW, JMM, DT, and MM performed the experiments. HMS, DJW, JMM, MM, DT, and JATY analyzed the data. JMM and GJAR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. HMS and JATY wrote the paper.