About the Authors

Sarah Jane White

Current address: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ari Rosenbach

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Lephart

Current address: Clinical Microbiology/Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Diem Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alana Benjamin

Current address: Santa Rosa Family Medicine Program, Santa Rosa, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saul Tzipori

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Tufts University, Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Malcolm Whiteway

Affiliation Genetics Group, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Joan Mecsas

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carol A Kumamoto

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: carol.kumamoto@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CAK conceived and designed the experiments. SJW, AR, PL, DN, AB, ST, and CAK performed the experiments. SJW, AR, PL, DN, AB, JM, and CAK analyzed the data. MW and JM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CAK wrote the paper.