About the Authors

Kerry D. Fitzgerald

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Bert L. Semler

blsemler@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KDF BLS. Performed the experiments: KDF. Analyzed the data: KDF BLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDF BLS. Wrote the paper: KDF BLS.