About the Authors

Slavica Djonović

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan M. Urbach

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eliana Drenkard

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jenifer Bush

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rhonda Feinbaum

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan L. Ausubel

Current address: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Traficante

Current address: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martina Risech

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christine Kocks

Current address: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael A. Fischbach

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gregory P. Priebe

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frederick M. Ausubel

ausubel@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD JMU ED RF CK MAF GPP FMA. Performed the experiments: SD JMU ED JB RF JLA DT MR CK. Analyzed the data: SD JMU ED MAF GPP FMA. Wrote the paper: SD JMU ED MAF GPP FMA.