About the Authors

Anthony R. Richardson

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony R. Richardson, Khanh C. Soliven

Current address: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Khanh C. Soliven

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony R. Richardson, Khanh C. Soliven

Current address: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Margaret E. Castor

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Penelope D. Barnes

Current address: Oregon Health Sciences University, Department of Medicine, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen J. Libby

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ferric C. Fang

fcfang@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARR. Performed the experiments: KCS MEC PDB SL. Analyzed the data: ARR KCS PDB FCF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FCF. Wrote the paper: ARR FCF.