About the Authors

Fuan Wang

Affiliations BioTherapeutics Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Xiujuan Gao

Affiliations BioTherapeutics Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

John W. Barrett

Affiliations BioTherapeutics Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Qing Shao

Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Eric Bartee

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mohamed R. Mohamed

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Masmudur Rahman

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Steve Werden

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Timothy Irvine

Affiliations BioTherapeutics Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Jingxin Cao

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gregory A. Dekaban

Affiliations BioTherapeutics Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Grant McFadden

grantmcf@ufl.edu

Affiliations BioTherapeutics Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived of the project: FW GM. Performed the experiments: FW XG JB QS EB MM MR SW TI JC. Analyzed the data: FW XG JB QS EB MM MR SW TI JC GM. Wrote the paper: FW GD GM. Designed the experiments: FW XG JB QS EB MM MR SW TI JC GM.