About the Authors

Lilach Sheiner

striepen@cb.uga.edu (BS) (LS); lilash@uga.edu (LS) (BS)

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jessica L. Demerly

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Nicole Poulsen

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Wandy L. Beatty

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Olivier Lucas

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Michael S. Behnke

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael W. White

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Boris Striepen

striepen@cb.uga.edu (BS) (LS); lilash@uga.edu (LS) (BS)

Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS BS. Performed the experiments: LS JLD NP WLB MSB . Analyzed the data: LS NP WLB OL MWW BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP WLB MWW BS. Wrote the paper: LS BS.