About the Authors

Terri A. DiMaio

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

Kimberley D. Gutierrez

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

Michael Lagunoff

Lagunoff@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, 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: TAD ML. Performed the experiments: TAD KDG. Analyzed the data: TAD ML. Wrote the paper: TAD ML.