About the Authors

Pradeep D Uchil

Contributed equally to this work with: Pradeep D Uchil, Brian D Quinlan

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Brian D Quinlan

Contributed equally to this work with: Pradeep D Uchil, Brian D Quinlan

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Wai-Tsing Chan

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joseph M Luna

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Walther Mothes

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: walther.mothes@yale.edu

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PDU, BDQ, and WM designed the study. PDU and BDQ performed all experiments with some assistance from WTC and JML. PDU and WM wrote the manuscript.