About the Authors

Wendy Blay Puryear

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Blay Puryear, Hisashi Akiyama

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hisashi Akiyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Blay Puryear, Hisashi Akiyama

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Suzanne D. Geer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nora P. Ramirez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xinwei Yu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Björn M. Reinhard

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and the Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Suryaram Gummuluru

rgummulu@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WBP HA SG. Performed the experiments: WBP HA SDG NPR XY. Analyzed the data: WBP HA SDG NPR SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WBP HA SDG NPR XY BMR. Wrote the paper: WBP HA SG.