About the Authors

Shinya Watanabe

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Zimmermann

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Michael B. Goodwin

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Uwe Sauer

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Clifton E. Barry 3rd

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Helena I. Boshoff

hboshoff@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HIB CEB. Performed the experiments: HIB SW MBG MZ. Analyzed the data: HIB SW CEB MZ MGB US. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HIB SW US. Wrote the paper: HIB SW CEB MZ. Obtained mutant strains from Dr. Ehrt and Dr. McKinney: HIB.