About the Authors

Edmond J. Byrnes III

Contributed equally to this work with: Edmond J. Byrnes III, Wenjun Li, Ping Ren

Current address: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Wenjun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Edmond J. Byrnes III, Wenjun Li, Ping Ren

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ping Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Edmond J. Byrnes III, Wenjun Li, Ping Ren

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, United States of America

Yonathan Lewit

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kerstin Voelz

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

James A. Fraser

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Fred S. Dietrich

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Robin C. May

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Sudha Chatuverdi

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, United States of America

Vishnu Chatuverdi

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, United States of America

Joseph Heitman

heitm001@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJB WL PR YL VC RCM JH. Performed the experiments: EJB WL PR YL KV JAF SC. Analyzed the data: EJB WL PR YL KV JAF FSD RCM SC VC JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FSD RCM VC JH. Wrote the paper: EJB WL YL JH.